Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Max-Preview Tops Chinese AI Rankings on LMArena but Lags Behind US Rivals Globally
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.5-Max-Preview, the flagship of its Qwen 3.5 series, which debuted as the top Chinese model on LMArena at 15th place globally, trailing Anthropic and Google, while ranking fifth in mathematics — as the company targets $100 billion in annual cloud and AI revenue within five years.