In an unexpected move on the first day of Lunar New Year, Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced its latest AI model, Qwen 2.5-Max, claiming it outperforms several leading models including the recently released DeepSeek-V3.

Chinese tech company Alibaba released a new version of the Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that surpasses DeepSeek's latest model.

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,

Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek's AI, OpenAI's GPT-4o and Meta's Llama.

The AI race gets frantic as Alibaba throws down a challenge at DeepSeek just days after ByteDance launches its own new AI model.

DeepSeek, a 20-month-old startup founded in Alibaba’s home city, Hangzhou, became a global sensation this week and figures prominently as the first benchmark that Alibaba appears to measure itself against. Alibaba Cloud also shared scores that suggest its AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s models in certain benchmarks.

Amid the buzz surrounding DeepSeek, domestic AI rival Alibaba Cloud’s ( NYSE: BABA) own Qwen team released a new family of artificial intelligence models, Qwen2.5-VL, capable of performing a number of text and image analysis tasks.

Alibaba's introduction of Qwen 2.5 Max comes as a strategic response to the rise of DeepSeek. The latter recently launched the powerful R1 model, which has created quite a stir in the tech world for being cost-effective and energy efficient than its rivals.

Alibaba introduced its Qwen 2.5 AI model, claiming it outperforms DeepSeek-V3 and others. The launch highlighted competition with DeepSeek.

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.

The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has published benchmark scores and touted what it calls world-leading performance with its new artificial intelligence model release.