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Episode 10 · May 26, 2026 · 08:28

This New Chinese AI Is INSANE!

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This new Chinese AI is insane. I want to tell you about something that happened over in China last week. Alibaba turned on an AI agent. They gave it a hard job.

It's away. And the AI kept working. For 35 hours straight. No coffee breaks.

No checking in. No human telling it what to do next. It just kept going for a day and a half. The model is called Quen 3.7 Max and the job they gave it was brutal.

They put it on a brand new computer chip that the AI had never seen before. No manual. No instructions. No examples.

Just here's the chip, make the software run faster. A year ago an AI agent would tap out after maybe an hour. This one ran for 35 hours and made 1158 separate moves to finish the job. It ran code, tested it, found its own bugs and fixed them over and over again.

And here's the part that stopped me. When it was done the software ran 10 times faster than the standard version. 10 times. The AI did that by itself.

Nobody held its hand. So let me back up and tell you why this matters to you even if you've never written a line of code in your life. For a long time AI was kind of like a really smart helper that needed you sitting right next to it. You'd ask it something.

It would answer. You'd ask again. It would answer again. The whole time you were the boss standing over its shoulder.

The second you walked away it stopped. That's the thing that just changed. This new AI can hold a long job in its head and keep working on it without you. Think about that for your own day.

How many tasks do you start but never finish because you got pulled away? How many things sit half done on your list right now? Now why could it suddenly do this? It comes down to two things and they're simple once you see them.

First is something boring sounding called the context window. Think of it like the AI's short term memory. The old version could only remember a little bit at a time. This one can hold about a million words in its memory at once.

That's a huge jump from where it was before. So when it's deep into a long job it doesn't forget what it was doing two hours ago. It remembers the whole story. Second, and this one's bigger, Alibaba trained this AI by throwing it into all kinds of different jobs and different tools not just one.

So instead of learning press this button in this one program it learned how to actually solve problems anywhere with any tool. The team said they want the AI to learn the real skill not just the tricks of one app. Why should you care about that? Because it means this thing isn't fragile.

You can drop it into your email, your spreadsheets, your documents, your customer messages and it figures it out. It's not stuck in one little box. Let me show you what I mean with a real example for someone running a business. Say you run a community of business owners like the AI profit boardroom.

Every week you get new people joining. Each one needs a warm welcome message. Each one has questions. Each one wants to know where to start.

Old way you'd write each message by hand or you'd hire someone to do it. With an agent like this you say go through this week's new members, write each one a personal welcome, point them to the right first steps and flag anyone who seems stuck and it just does it while you sleep. That's one job. It can chain together a hundred more.

Now let me hit pause for a second because I want to talk to the person who's feeling a little behind right now. If you're watching this and your business still runs on you doing everything by hand and you're hearing about AI agents working for 35 hours straight and feeling a knot in your stomach, I get it. That feeling is normal. Here's the good news.

You don't need to figure this out alone and you don't need to be a tech person. That's exactly why we built the iProfit boardroom. Inside we go deep on tools like Quen 3.7 max and how to actually put them to work in your business so you can stop trading hours for tasks and start getting your time back. We run four live coaching calls every week where you can bring your own setup and we'll help you build agents that handle your busy work, your follow-ups and your customer support.

Plus daily step-by-step tutorials and a 30-day roadmap built around using these new AI agents to bring in more leads and serve more customers. There are 2,800 business owners in there right now, many already running agents like this. Links in the description or go to aiprofitboardroom.com. Okay back to it.

So how good is this thing really? Because RAM for 35 hours sounds wild but is it actually smart? Here's where it gets interesting. Quen 3.7 max is now the number two coding AI in the world.

The only one ahead of it is Claude. This isn't some toy. This is near the very top. Now I want to be straight with you because I don't do hype.

Some catches. This model is not free to download and run yourself. Older Quen models you could grab and run on your own computer. This one you can't.

You have to use it through Alibaba's service so you're renting it not owning it. There's a second thing too and it's a little funny. This AI talks a lot. It writes way more words than most other models do to get to the same answer.

And since you pay by the word all that extra talking can add up on a long job. It's cheap per word but it uses a lot of words. Keep an eye on that. And one more honest note.

On a test of plain facts this version actually gets fewer questions right than the older one. Here's the flip side. It also makes up far less nonsense. Instead of guessing and getting it wrong it just says I don't know more often.

Which honestly I kind of like. I'd rather have an AI tell me it's not sure than confidently feed me garbage. This isn't perfect. No tool is.

But the direction is what matters. Let me zoom out because I think people are missing the real story here. For years the question everyone asked about AI was how smart is it? Which model scores highest on the test?

Who's got the biggest brain? But that's the wrong question now. The real question is how long can it work without me? Think about it.

A genius who quits after five minutes isn't very useful. A regular worker who shows up every day and grinds through the whole job. That person gets things done. Durance beats raw smarts when there's real work to finish.

And that's the race now. Labs aren't being judged on how polished their chatbot sounds anymore. They're being judged on whether the AI can keep working when the job gets long and messy. Quen 3.7 max just put down a marker.

When they tested it against other top AAs on that same chip job it beat all of them. It got that 10 times speed up while the next best only hit 7. Here's what that means for you. The work that used to take you a week or take your team a week is starting to fit into an afternoon.

This model is built to ship two week projects in hours. Not because the AI is magic but because it can sit there and grind through the whole thing without stopping. So picture your own to-do list. The stuff that piles up.

The follow-up emails. The reports. The data you keep meaning to clean up. The content you keep meaning to write.

Imagine handing all of it to something that works through the night and has it ready when you wake up. Let me give you one more example. Simple and real. You want to grow your community and you've got a giant list of questions members have asked over the past year scattered across messages.

You want to turn those into a helpful guide. Old way that's days of digging. New way you point the agent at all of it and say read every question group them by topic and write me a clear answer for each one. A million word memory means it can actually hold all those questions at once and do it in one go.

The kind of thing that used to need a whole team. Now I want to talk to two kinds of people watching this right now. If you're a business owner doing everything yourself this is your moment to get leverage. You can't hire 10 people but you can learn to point one of these agents at the jobs eating your week.

Start with one task. The one you hate most. One you keep putting off. Hand that to an agent and see what happens.

And if you're sitting there thinking this is moving too fast I'll never keep up. Look you don't have to keep up with everything. You just have to keep up with the parts that touch your business. That's it.

You don't need to understand how the chip got faster. You just need to know how to put an agent to work answering your customers and finding your next leads. Because here's the truth nobody likes to say out loud. The gap isn't going to be between people who can code and people who can't.

The gap is going to be between people who learn to use these agents and people who kept doing everything by hand. One group's going to have their evenings back. The other's going to be drowning. I'd rather you be in the first group.

And the speed here is the part that should wake you up. Alibaba put out their last big model just last month. This month they've already leaped past it. As one watcher put it nobody else is moving like this.

New Chinese model near the top of the world at a sixth of the price and it just keeps coming. That pace isn't slowing down. It's speeding up. So what do you actually do with all this?

If you take one thing from this video let it be this. Stop thinking of AI as a chatbot you ask questions to. Start thinking of it as a worker you hand jobs to. Shifting your head is worth more than any single tool.

Once you see your AI as a tireless team member instead of a search box everything changes about how you run your day. Pick one job this week. Just one. Something repetitive that eats your time.

Try handing it to an AI and see how far it gets. You'll be surprised and you'll start to see your whole business differently. That's the real unlock here. Not the chip.

Not the benchmark scores. The fact that for the first time you can give an AI a real job and walk away and it'll still be working when you get back. If you want to go deeper on this here's where I'd point you. Inside the AI Profit Boardroom we're building step-by-step playbooks for putting agents like Quen 3.7 max to work so you can automate the boring parts of your business and free up your week.

Four live coaching calls where you bring your real tasks and we help you set up agents that handle your leads, your follow-ups, and your customer service. 30-day roadmap and a member map so you can connect with other owners near you who are doing the same thing. 2,800 of us all figuring this out together. Link in the description or go to aiprofitboardroom.com and if you want this for free first come join the AI Success Lab.

It's our free community with 67,000 members all using AI to grow their businesses. You'll get the full notes from this video plus over 100 real ways people are using AI just like this one. Links are in the comments in the description.

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