How did Qwen3.5-397B-A17B do on X?

Qwen posted the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B launch from @Alibaba_Qwen on Feb 16, 2026. The post has 1,280,814 views, 5,205 likes, 844 reposts, 418 quotes and 267 replies, an engagement rate of 0.53%. It ranks #499 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

Qwen@Alibaba_Qwen · 316.6K followersView on X
🚀 Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is here: The first open-weight model in the Qwen3.5 series. 🖼️Native multimodal. Trained for real-world agents. ✨Powered by hybrid linear attention + sparse MoE and large-scale RL environment scaling. ⚡8.6x–19.0x decoding throughput vs Qwen3-Max 🌍201 languages & dialects 📜Apache2.0 licensed 🔗Dive in: GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.5 Chat: https://chat.qwen.ai API:https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/ap-southeast-1/?tab=doc#/doc/?type=model&url=2840914_2&modelId=group-qwen3.5-plus Qwen Code: https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen35 ModelScope: https://modelscope.cn/collections/Qwen/Qwen35 blog: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B launch post media
Feb 16, 2026 · 1,280,814 views
  • 7.3xthe median launch175K median views
  • #499of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 4.0xits own following316,558 followers
Views
1.3M
Likes
5.2K
Reposts
844
Quotes
418
Replies
267
Bookmarks
1.3K

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 1.3M views would cost $128K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $32K.

The post reached about 4.0 views for every follower of @Alibaba_Qwen.

What launched?

Qwen released Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, the first open-weight model in the Qwen3.5 series, natively multimodal and built for real-world agents.

How does it compare with other launches?

Qwen3.5-397B-A17B has more views than 82% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 7.3x the median launch's 175K views.

  • Qwen3.5-397B-A17B1.3M
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricQwen3.5-397B-A17BMedian launch
Views1.3M175K
Engagement rate0.53%0.48%
Views per follower4.02.8
Quote posts41827
Saves per 10K views9.914.2

Other Qwen launches we track: Qwen3.8-Max (7.7M views), Qwen-Image-2.1 (2.6M views), Qwen3-Coder (2.3M views), Qwen-Image-Layered (1.2M views), Qwen3-Max (734.6K views), Qwen-Scope (379.4K views). All 30 Qwen launches, or every ai launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
AI launches1,462263K4.9x#310
Accounts 100K to 1M followers909252.6K5.1x#160
Image launch posts620143.1K8.9x#98
Every launch2,839175K7.3x#499

What this launch shows

From an account with 316.6K followers, the post reached 4.0 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 100K to 1M followers reach a median of 1.0 times their following, so this one went about 4.1 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 160 of 909 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 418 quote posts, 3.3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "🚀 Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is here: The first open-weight model in the Qwen3.5 series.". The post runs 53 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Monday (UTC). Monday launches have a median of 181.4K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

How many views did Qwen3.5-397B-A17B get on X?
1,280,814 views. Qwen posted it from @Alibaba_Qwen on Feb 16, 2026, and the post has 5,205 likes, 844 reposts, 418 quotes, 267 replies and 1,270 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Qwen3.5-397B-A17B a big launch on X?
It ranks #499 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 82% of them and 7.3x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.53%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 1.3M views on X cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 1.3M views would cost $128K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $32K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/qwen3-5-397b-a17b, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.