model · Alibaba (Qwen team)
Qwen3.6 (35B-A3B)
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is Alibaba's open mixture-of-experts model: 35B total parameters but only ~3B active per token, so it generates quickly while keeping the quality of a much larger model. It has a 256K context window, strong coding and multilingual skills, an Apache-2.0 licence, and first-class Apple MLX support — at 4-bit it needs about 19 GB, making a 32 GB Mac its natural home. It is the standout 'serious model on a Mac' pick.
What it can help with
- mixture-of-experts
- apple-silicon
- mlx-support
- 256k-context
- code-generation
- multilingual
- 4-bit-quantization
- apache-2.0