Qwen 4.0 Max
Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max landed May 20 with a 1M-token context window and benchmark wins over Opus 4.6 Max on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and SWE-Bench Pro — at roughly half the price. Markets put 96% on Alibaba holding the top-Chinese-lab crown, and the quarterly 3.6 → 3.7 cadence makes 4.0 Max the next numbered flagship to watch. The second it answers on the public API, ArtificialWatch fires.
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The market keeps Alibaba on top — 4.0 Max is the model it's pricing
At 96%, the top-CN-lab market is effectively settled sentiment. The open question is when the 3.7 line rolls over to 4.0 — and whether an open-weight Qwen 4 ships beside the Max.
Qwen 3.7 Max: 1M context, and it beats Opus 4.6 Max on the agentic benches
Announced at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou: 1M-token context, a 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis index, wins over Claude Opus 4.6 Max on Terminal-Bench 2.0, SWE-Bench Pro and MCP-Atlas, and a claimed 35-hour autonomous run across 1,000+ tool calls — at $2.50/$7.50 per 1M tokens. via Alibaba · Digital Applied
The API went live a day before the keynote
Model Studio served 3.7 Max on May 19 — a day ahead of the announcement — with OpenRouter and Together AI cross-listings on day zero. Alibaba ships API-first, which is exactly the surface we sweep. via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
Qwen 4.0: no official word — cadence is the tell
Nothing announced. But 3.6 → 3.7 took a quarter, and Alibaba hasn't let a flagship sit two full quarters since the Qwen 3 era. The math points at late summer to fall. via Manifold market
The official word.
"The model can work independently for over 35 hours at a time, managing more than 1,000 tool calls while retaining high performance."
Alibaba, Qwen 3.7 Max announcement · May 20, 2026
Hear it the second 4.0 Max answers.
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