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Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.5-Max-Preview AI to Compete Globally

3/21/2026

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Alibaba Group Holding introduced its AI model Qwen3.5-Max-Preview on March 20, 2026.
The model aims to boost Alibaba's competitiveness against Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
Qwen3.5-Max-Preview is on Arena, a platform by UC Berkeley researchers.
It ranks as the top Chinese model but 15th globally, behind Anthropic and Google, and it is fifth in mathematics worldwide.
Alibaba plans to finalize optimizations before the official release in the next two weeks.

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Alibaba Group Holding introduced its AI model Qwen3.5-Max-Preview on March 20, 2026.
The model aims to boost Alibaba's competitiveness against Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
Qwen3.5-Max-Preview is on Arena, a platform by UC Berkeley researchers.
It ranks as the top Chinese model but 15th globally, behind Anthropic and Google, and it is fifth in mathematics worldwide.
Alibaba plans to finalize optimizations before the official release in the next two weeks.