Alibaba releases new version of AI model, claims it outperforms DeepSeek-V3
Chinese tech giant Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed out-performed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3, reported Reuters. Chinese tech giant Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model The sudden release of the AI model, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when most Chinese people are on holiday, is a sign of the pressure that has been created in the industry after the arrival and meteoric rise of the Chinese AI newcomer DeepSeek, which has unseated not just domestic but international rivals as well. "Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit said in an announcement posted on its official WeChat account, referring to OpenAI and Meta's most advanced open-source AI models. Merely two days after the launch of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions.




















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