Alibaba

Alibaba is the Chinese hyperscaler behind the Qwen family of models, one of the most prolific release cadences in AI. Their May 2026 flagship Qwen3.7-Max landed on the Alibaba Cloud API on May 19 and was formally unveiled at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit on May 20. It carries a 1 million token context window, an extended-thinking mode, and posted the top result on the public Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 57, with roughly 1,475 Elo on the LM Arena text leaderboard. Alibaba claims Qwen3.7-Max can run agentic workloads autonomously for up to 35 hours on long-horizon tasks. On August 3, 2026 Alibaba replaced it at the top with Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter MoE activating roughly 95 billion per token, priced at $2 input / $6 output per 1M with a 1M context window and native text, image, and video input. Its benchmark profile is split: 86.6 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 at 84.6, behind GPT-5.6 Sol at 88.8), leading PaperBench at 93.0 and IFBench at 82.8, but well behind Fable 5 on core software engineering at 67.7 versus 80.0 on SWE-bench Pro. Eleven days later, on August 14, Alibaba published Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0: 27.78 billion dense parameters, natively multimodal, 262K context, and the strongest locally deployable multimodal model near that size. Earlier members of the family including Qwen3 Coder Next, Qwen3.5 Plus, and Qwen3.6 Plus remain widely deployed across OpenRouter and self-hosted setups.