Alibaba Releases Qwen3.6-Max Preview with Enhanced Coding and Knowledge Capabilities

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, featuring significantly improved agent programming abilities, stronger world knowledge, and better instruction following compared to Qwen3.6-Plus. The preview model shows notable gains on benchmarks including SkillsBench (+9.9), SciCode (+10.8), and Terminal-Bench 2.0 (+3.8), positioning it competitively against leading frontier models.