In brief
Qwen 3.7 Max debuted on Arena AI on May 14, 2026 —five days before the Alibaba Cloud Summit.
The model ranks #13 globally in text and making Alibaba the sixth-ranked AI lab worldwide.
The Plus variant will be open source; the Max flagship will not—continuing Alibaba's shift toward monetizing its best models while giving developers access to the tier below.
Alibaba is shooting out AI models like crazy, and they’re now much more powerful than ever with the Qwen 3.7 family out for testing. This week, two new models quietly appeared on Arena AI's leaderboard: Qwen 3.7 Max-Preview and Qwen 3.7-Plus-Preview. The models are, of course, the appetizer for the Alibaba Cloud Summit 2026.
