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Alibaba’s new AI model scores higher than OpenAI, Google rivals in coding ranking
The Chinese tech giant is the only non-US firm to crack the top five in Code Arena’s latest leaderboard
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Minxiao Changin ShenzhenPublished: 6:00pm, 27 May 2026Updated: 8:15pm, 27 May 2026Alibaba Group Holding’s latest artificial intelligence model has clinched a top-tier spot on a major global coding leaderboard, making the Chinese technology giant the only developer other than Anthropic to break into the ranking’s top five spots.Qwen3.7-Max, Alibaba’s latest AI model, scored 1,541 on the Code Arena ranking to claim the fourth spot globally, placing it ahead of rival models from OpenAI and Google. The other four spots in the top five were held by various iterations of Claude models by AI powerhouse Anthropic.
Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
AdvertisementThe ranking comes as Chinese AI developers are increasingly pivoting from general-purpose chatbots towards specialised coding agents and other autonomous systems, which investors view as the most commercially viable applications for generative AI.
Unlike traditional coding benchmarks such as HumanEval or SWE-bench, which rely on standardised tests, Code Arena users test how well models can independently build complete, interactive web applications from scratch, based on user prompts.
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Users then vote on anonymised outputs in blind comparisons, meaning the leaderboard closely reflects the preferences of real-world developers.
The benchmark is run by Arena, an organisation founded by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with University of California San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University.
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