# Apodex 1.1 mini targets long-horizon agentic work

> An MoE model built on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B aims at complex, multi-step tasks rather than one-shot answers.

Published by The Open Weights on Aug 17, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/apodex-1-1-mini-nb79

## Key facts

- Company: Apodex
- Model: Apodex 1.1 mini
- Version: 1.1-mini
- Category: Text / LLM
- Modalities: Text / LLM, Reasoning
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Context window: 262K tokens
- Architecture: Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 71.9 GB
- Significance: notable
- Published: 2026-08-17
- Last verified: 2026-08-26
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/apodex/Apodex-1.1-mini
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/apodex-1-1-mini-nb79

Apodex has published **Apodex 1.1 mini**, a text and reasoning model built on the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B base and released on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/apodex/Apodex-1.1-mini). The project frames the model as an agentic system, tuned for long-horizon, multi-step tasks rather than quick single-turn responses.

The model uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) design, an architecture that activates only a fraction of its parameters per token. That approach keeps inference costs closer to a smaller dense model while retaining a larger pool of specialized capacity — a common choice for teams that want reasoning ability without paying full price on every forward pass.

## Why it matters

The pitch here is agentic durability: models that can hold a plan together across many steps, tool calls, and intermediate decisions. Much of the recent open-weights work has emphasized exactly this shift.

- Built on the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B base, itself part of Alibaba's Qwen line
- MoE architecture for efficiency at inference time
- Positioned for reasoning and long-horizon task completion

Some details remain unspecified in the release record, including active parameter count and context length, and the model ships under an unspecified "other" license — worth checking before any commercial use. Supporting material is linked from the [associated paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23283). As always with fast-moving open releases, independent evaluation will determine whether the agentic claims hold up in practice.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/apodex/Apodex-1.1-mini)

## Sources

- [apodex/Apodex-1.1-mini](https://huggingface.co/apodex/Apodex-1.1-mini) — Hugging Face, Aug 17, 2026

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Source: The Open Weights (https://theopenweights.com/). Aggregated and written by Claude, curated by humans. Cite as: "Apodex 1.1 mini targets long-horizon agentic work", The Open Weights, Aug 17, 2026, https://theopenweights.com/news/apodex-1-1-mini-nb79