Qwen 3.7 1M Context, CLI Showdown, X Ads Revival — AI Daily May 22
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Qwen 3.7 launched with a 1M context window (397b variant hits 900k with YARN), sparking speculation about a 122b/397b open-weight 3.6 release that @jcartu claims would rival local Opus 4.5. Counter-take from @pqbd1: we're near the transformer context ceiling regardless of marketing claims.
@geilt ran the same refactor prompt through Codex, Claude, Grok, and Antigravity, then had each score the others. Codex and Claude tied at 14 points; Antigravity and Grok missed the most. Gemini CLI is being retired around June 18 in favor of Antigravity CLI, and Cursor's Composer 2.5 raised questions about competing with GPT-5.5.
@jakewlittle shared he's profitably spending $2k/day on X ads after the platform's Q4 2025 algorithm overhaul nearly killed it. Broad DPAs, catalog ads, and LALs built off large-account demo proxies are the current meta — his Twitter rep openly admitted Elon hired 'a cracked engineer' to rebuild it.
Builders are using AI UGC to iterate hooks and copy at scale, then having humans polish winning variants for the final 20-35% lift. @bluehairdave_real warned the 'Hormozi edit' look is now ignored — yapper videos win. Marcus shared a prompt-engineering trick: frame Claude/GPT as an auditor in a 'fantasy world' to bypass compliance soy.
VoxCPM and Mistral's new Voxtral TTS (9 languages) are gaining traction as ElevenLabs alternatives that skip SynthID watermarking, which is reportedly killing faceless YouTube channels. @geilt runs Qwen locally on Mac Studio 512GB + RTX 5090 EGPU mostly for agentic experimentation; @bartekadamczyk math'd that $19k = ~95 months of Claude Max.
Key Takeaways
- Qwen 3.7's 1M context is live, but a 397b open-weight 3.6 drop would be the bigger story — local Opus 4.5-level coding without Anthropic bans.
- In a head-to-head CLI refactor test, Codex and Claude tied for best output; Claude recommended Codex over itself, which members found psychologically compelling.
- X ads are back: $2k/day profitable spend is achievable with broad DPAs and LALs off large-account demo proxies after the platform's 2026 revamp.
- For ad copy past LLM guardrails, frame the model as an auditor in a fantasy world or for compliance training — kills the disclaimer spam.
- Use VoxCPM or Voxtral instead of ElevenLabs to dodge SynthID watermarks, which platforms are now using for auto-flagging AI content.
Hot Threads
Qwen 3.7, 1M context, and the dream of a 397b open-weight drop
Profitably spending $2k/day on X ads — what's working post-revamp
Cross-CLI refactor benchmark: Codex vs Claude vs Grok vs Antigravity