1 day ago · The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure Chinese AI startup ...

14 hours ago · The launch of DeepSeek-V2 last May triggered an AI price war in China, and Alibaba’s cloud unit responded by slashing prices by up to 97%. This price-cutting strategy has now become commonplace among Chinese firms, including Baidu and Tencent, as they race to develop and release AI models that can compete with OpenAI and other US-based giants

18 hours ago · China's Alibaba unveils new AI model Qwen 2.5 Max, claiming it outperforms ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Llama in the AI race. ... Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stunned the world with the release of its R1 model, which appears to perform nearly as well as leading models from Google and OpenAI, despite the company’s claim that it used a relatively ...

1 day ago · The fact that DeepSeek-V2 was open-source and unprecedentedly cheap, only 1 yuan ($0.14) per 1 million tokens - or units of data processed by the AI model - led to Alibaba's cloud unit announcing ...

1 day ago · Chinese tech giant Alibaba has introduced Qwen2.5-Max, an advanced artificial intelligence model that it claims surpasses several leading AI systems in performance. The announcement comes as China's AI sector rapidly gains ground, with companies like DeepSeek challenging Silicon Valley's dominance and demonstrating the ability to develop ...

2 days ago · Chinese tech company Alibaba has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that it claims outperforms its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek. Now, Alibaba claims that Qwen 2.5-Max, which ...

1 day ago · China’s Alibaba releases new AI model, said to outperform competitors Deepseek and OpenAI’s GPT-4o. Shares of Alibaba rose by almost 3 per cent in New York in recent trading, ...

1 day ago · Chinese internet company Alibaba launches Qwen 2.5 generative AI model, taking aim at its fellow ...[+] China-based competitor DeepSeek-V3. getty. There’s been an escalation in the generative AI ...

1 day ago · Alongside Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Baidu Inc., Alibaba has poured significant resources into its cloud services segment and is engaged in a hot contest to recruit China’s AI developers to use ...

1 day ago · Chinese tech company Alibaba BABA-N on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.