Judging by the code in the HF transformers repo[1], smaller dense versions of this model will most likely be released at some point. Hopefully, soon.

[1]: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/src/tr...

Per https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.5, more are coming:

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I get the impression the multimodal stuff might make it a bit harder?