# China’s Qwen 3.7 Max DESTROYS Claude?

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Podcast: [AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-news-today-julian-goldie-podcast-7573784)
Published: 2026-05-29T11:04:14+00:00
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## Resource

Qwen 3.7 Max: Alibaba’s 35-Hour Autonomous Agent Demo + Claude-Beating Benchmarks (With Caveats)Alibaba’s new flagship model, Qwen 3.7 Max, was unveiled around the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou (May 20, 2026) and is positioned as a closed, proprietary frontier model aimed at enterprise, narrowing the gap with Claude Opus 4.7 while costing less per token. The script highlights strong agentic benchmarks (e.g., Terminal Bench 2.0, SWE-Bench Pro, MC Atlas, GPQA Diamond) and broad compatibility with agent frameworks and APIs (OpenAI and Anthropic specs), plus availability across multiple platforms. It also stresses caveats: the model is unusually verbose, which can raise real costs, and it has a low hallucination rate partly due to a much lower attempt rate. A headline 35-hour autonomous optimization demo (vendor-stated, not independently verified) reportedly achieved a 10× speedup on Alibaba’s Shenwu M890 chip kernel. 00:00 Qwen Shocks The Frontier 01:34 What Qwen 3.7 Max Is 02:17 Agent Framework Compatibility 02:55 Benchmark Wins Explained 04:12 Pricing And Token Trap 05:29 Hallucinations Versus Refusals 06:27 Inside The 35 Hour Demo 08:19 Hermes Agent Integration 09:50 Should You Switch Now 11:39 How To Test And Deploy 12:36 Stop Waiting Start Building 14:31 Final Takeaways And Caveats

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