China's large models have once again set new records on the global top-tier stage. On March 20, the Alibaba Qwen family welcomed a flagship new member —— Qwen3.5-Max-Preview. The model made its debut on the global large model competition platform LM Arena, and immediately attracted industry attention with a comprehensive score of 1464 points.

With this strong performance, Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen climbed to the fifth position globally in the global large model company rankings of LM Arena, firmly securing the top spot among Chinese large model companies. This achievement marks that domestic large models have entered the core positions of the first-tier global competition.

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As a third-party evaluation platform organized by the international open-source research institution LMSYS, LM Arena is recognized as the most valuable and reference-worthy ranking in the industry due to its "anonymous confrontation and blind voting" mechanism. In this test, Qwen3.5-Max-Preview demonstrated balanced and powerful technical capabilities:

Mathematical ability: Ranked fifth globally, demonstrating strong logical reasoning skills.

Overall performance: Ranked sixth globally in the absolute win rate competition without style control.

Expert-level processing: It also ranked among the top ten globally in complex text processing capabilities.

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According to Alibaba Cloud, since the Lunar New Year, the Qwen3.5 series has gradually released eight models with different parameter sizes, ranging from 0.8B to 397B. Among them, the flagship Qwen3.5-Max-Preview is the culmination of the series. It continues the architectural advantages of the series, "small activation, big performance," achieving performance comparable to or even surpassing some larger-scale models while maintaining efficient operation.

Currently, the model is available as a preview version. Alibaba Cloud stated that it will continue to iterate and optimize based on feedback from the developer community. As Tongyi Qianwen