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CNBC · United States · Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 goes API-only at the top, open-weight below
Reports Alibaba steering China's chatbot race toward AI agents with Qwen3.5, the strategic pivot that the 3.7 agent variants extend; notes Alibaba's cloud-revenue motive in keeping the top tier proprietary.
“Alibaba unveils Qwen as China's chatbot race shifts to AI agents.”