Ep 23: Alibaba Qwen just dropped Qwen3.5-Omni, a native end-to-end multimodal model built for text, audio, video, and realtime interaction.

**Models & Agents** **Date:** March 31, 2026 **HOOK:** Alibaba Qwen just dropped Qwen3.5-Omni, a native end-to-end multimodal model built for text, audio, video, and realtime interaction. **What You Need to Know:** The biggest news today is the shift from patchwork multimodal wrappers to truly native omnimodal architectures, with Qwen3.5-Omni positioned as a direct challenger to Gemini 1.5 Pro and similar flagships. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis (ElevenLabs) for audio production.