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Atomic.chat says Qwen 3.7-max beat Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in agentic Tetris-bot test

In a 10-iteration code-and-rewrite challenge, the team let each model build and train a Tetris bot, then compared the final agents.

By Ryan Merket · Published May 22, 2026, 12:40pm CT

Why it matters

Operator-style, agentic evals are closer to how teams will actually use frontier models. If Qwen is edging rivals in code-and-iterate loops, stack choices and costs could shift quickly.

Screenshot of Qwen 3.7 Max beating Opus and GPT 5.5 at making a functioning Tetris game

Atomic.chat said in a thread on X that Qwen 3.7-max outperformed Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in a real agentic task: write a Tetris bot that plays the game and trains itself.

https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2057581603811901882

Atomic.chat described a closed-loop setup where each model could read its own code, run benchmarks, and rewrite itself across multiple rounds. In a reply to Thomas Truszkowski | AI Geek (sarcasm included) (@Thomas_AI_geek), the account clarified it ran 10 iterations per model before comparing the resulting bots.

The company did not publish detailed metrics in the thread but shared a video of the bots and said the run was costly, responding to erik@try.works (@trydotworks) that it was "expensive as a hell." Atomic.chat also linked to its site for more context: atomic.chat.

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