Qwen3.5 Multimodal Model Now on NVIDIA AI Endpoints

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-03-01 · Open on X

Topics: LLM Fundamentals, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP · Level: intermediate

Summary

Alibaba's Qwen3.5 is now available through NVIDIA AI endpoints. It is a frontier-class vision-language model built for native multimodal agents. It has about 400B parameters, combines Mixture-of-Experts with Gated Delta Networks, and reasons across text, code and vision, including understanding and navigating user interfaces.

Key points

• Qwen3.5 comes from Alibaba's Qwen team and is available on NVIDIA AI endpoints.
• It is a vision-language model (VLM) built for native multimodal agents.
• It has about 400B parameters, combining MoE and Gated Delta Networks.
• It reasons across text, code and vision, and can understand and navigate user interfaces.

Resources mentioned

• Qwen 3.5 · tool · qwen.ai · free
  Alibaba Qwen open model family with small on-device variants and toggleable reasoning.
  Also in: Workshop AI: Building Apps with Cloud and Local Agents (GLM 5, Qwen 3.5) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.5 0.8B Does Real-Time Local Video Captioning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen3.5 0.8B Real-Time Video Captioning on Mac Studio (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen 3.5 Is the Local Model That Holds Up in Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 7 more
• NVIDIA AI (@NVIDIAAI) on X · person · x.com · free
  NVIDIA AI's official X account, which posts model releases and endpoint availability.
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Try this

• Try Qwen3.5 through NVIDIA AI endpoints for multimodal agent tasks.