Alibaba says the latest version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model can take on fellow Chinese firm DeepSeek's V3 as well as the top models from U.S. rivals OpenAI and Meta.

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Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., has released its latest breakthrough artificial intelligence large language model just in time for the Chinese New Year: Qwen 2.5-Max, which it claims surpasses today’s most powerful AI models.

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) released a new version Wednesday of its Qwen large language model, known as Qwen2.5 Max, which it said topped DeepSeek's AI model across various benchmarks.

Alibaba claims that its new AI model, Qwen 2.5 Max, demonstrates superior performance over competitors like Meta’s Llama and DeepSeek’s V3. This development highlights the fierce competition among Chinese tech firms,

Chinese technology company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (阿里巴巴) yesterday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence (AI) model that it said surpassed the highly acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

Alibaba Group Holding released on Wednesday an upgraded version of its Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it said "comprehensively outperformed" in certain benchmark tests DeepSeek-V3, the large language model (LLM) launched in December by China's hottest start-up.

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Free, highly capable AI systems don’t just stop with DeepSeek. There are more open-source AI products coming from China, such as YuE, which generates full pop music tracks complete with warbled lyrics, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen, which creates AI agents.