Exploring Next
Exploring Next — Ep 421 w/ Justy & Cody — Qwen 3.7 Max Preview: What Alibaba's New AI Gets Right and Where It Falls Short - Decrypt
Justy and Cody react to Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max preview on Arena AI: its surprise rankings (#13 text, #5 vision globally), the open/closed strategy (Plus open, Max proprietary), and a wild creative-writing test where Qwen nailed Caribbean cultural depth. Cody questions the consistency of crowd-sourced rankings, Justy sees a market signal for non-Western developers. They tease the timing (preview lands five days before Alibaba Cloud Summit) and the model’s 'deep thinking mode' preview limits.