Alibaba Launches Qwen3.7 Preview, Claims Leading Domestic Rankings in Text and Vision

AIMPACT Message, May 19 (UTC+8): According to monitoring by Beating, the Alibaba Qwen team has quietly launched the first preview versions of the Qwen3.7 series on chat.qwen.ai: Max and Plus. The new versions have been forcibly locked into deep thinking mode, temporarily disabling web search and code interpreter functionalities. In the latest Arena leaderboard for large models, Qwen3.7 has achieved dual top rankings in China for both text and vision. The flagship model, Qwen3.7-Max-Preview, ranks 13th globally on the text leaderboard, elevating Alibaba Lab’s text research ranking to 6th worldwide. The new model has firmly entered the global top 10 across core reasoning benchmarks: 7th in mathematics, 9th in expert prompting and software/IT, and 10th in code generation. The vision-focused Qwen3.7-Plus-Preview secured 16th place globally on the vision leaderboard, raising Alibaba’s overall vision research capability to 5th worldwide. The previous flagship, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, was only released on April 20—just 28 days ago—demonstrating an exceptionally rapid product iteration cycle. This preemptive launch before the event is clearly aimed at building momentum for the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit opening in Hangzhou on May 20, where the official technical foundation and commercial deployment plans for the new base model will be unveiled. (Source: BlockBeats)