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China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for domestic deployment, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering most features and Baidu in a smaller role, ending a two-year delay.

Qwen3.7-Max debuts at Alibaba's Cloud Summit in Hangzhou as the company's most capable agent model, sustaining continuous autonomous execution for 35 hours in internal testing.

Alibaba's new flagship tops SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0 and four other coding leaderboards, but ships as a proprietary hosted model rather than an open-weight release.

Alibaba releases four open-source Qwen 3.5 Small models ranging from 0.8 to 9 billion parameters, delivering multimodal reasoning on consumer hardware while the 9B variant outperforms models up to 13 times its size on key benchmarks.

Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that activates only 17B parameters per pass, beats rivals on instruction-following benchmarks, and ships at 1/18th the cost of Gemini 3 Pro.