Qwen3.5-9B Claude Opus Reasoning API: Claude 4.6 Intelligence for Pennies
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Qwen3.5-9B Claude Opus Reasoning API: Claude 4.6 Intelligence for Pennies What if a 9-billion parameter model could reason like Claude 4.6 Opus? That's exactly what knowledge distillation achieves - and today I'll show you how to access this capability via API in under 5 minutes. 🧠The Model: Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled The Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled model is a fine-tuned version of Qwen3.5-9B that learned to reason like Claude 4.6 Opus through Chain-of-Thought distillation. Here's the.