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That's because Qwen's flagship models are not, in fact, open weight. Qwen3.7 Max, Qwen3.7 Plus and others are closed weight.

You can use Qwen3.6 35B A3B (for example) on Openrouter with a US-based ZDR provider, because it's one of their open weight models



> That's because Qwen's flagship models are not, in fact, open weight

They changed course when they fired the old lead and hired a new 1 from ex-gemini.


No, Qwen Max series has always been proprietary.


They also stopped releasing 100b+ model weights after firing him




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