Original Reddit post

Never a dull day in the AI space! Alibaba Qwen just launched Qwen 3.5 Small models that are:

  • Fully open source
  • Can beat models 4 times it’s size
  • Works offline
  • Touts a high degree of privacy
  • Work on my iPhone
  • And best of all its completely free. But they do have downsides:
  • Not being online means it can’t search
  • Current year is 2025
  • Limitations vs larger models. Keen to know what people would feel the best use cases for these sorts of models are? Has anyone tried them? Its certainly an exciting area for the future to be able to run your own model on your device locally for free! https://preview.redd.it/l86x0v9dasmg1.png?width=416&format=png&auto=webp&s=73429e1caec4c7104c4c80f8a5d9e0146dbd2ba3 submitted by /u/SarutobiSasuke8

Originally posted by u/SarutobiSasuke8 on r/ArtificialInteligence