# Alibaba framed AI as a new form of manufacturing that generates revenue through “training and inference factories” “What we’re building is China’s AI factory,” Liu Weiguang said.

*genai · news · 2026-05-20 · South China Morning Post*

## Key points

- Alibaba announced Qwen3.7-Max, a new proprietary large language model for AI agents.
- Qwen3.7-Max can autonomously operate for up to 35 hours without performance degradation.
- Alibaba claims to be China's only AI and cloud company with all five layers of the AI stack.
- Qwen3.7-Max is optimized for agentic coding, complex reasoning, and long-horizon, multi-step tasks.

**Companies:** Alibaba
**Countries:** China

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