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Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max runs 35 hours autonomously, matches Claude Opus

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Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.7-Max, a new proprietary AI model designed for extended autonomous agent tasks. This model has demonstrated its capabilities by running for 35 hours to optimize code for Alibaba's custom chip. In benchmarks, Qwen3.7-Max performs comparably to Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and surpasses other Chinese models such as DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi K2.6. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for autonomous agent execution duration and performance against leading models.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max runs 35 hours autonomously, matches Claude Opus

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Jonathan Kemper ·

    Alibaba's latest AI model ran autonomously for 35 hours to optimize code for its own custom chip

    <p><img alt="Banner Qwen 3.7 Max with bear, shows autonomous long-term execution, coding agent, productivity assistant and model ranking." class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="941" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/qwen3.7-max-banner.jpg" …

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