Alibaba Releases Qwen 2.5 AI Mannequin, Claims It Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

Alibaba Releases Qwen 2.5 AI Mannequin, Claims It Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

Chinese language tech firm Alibaba on Wednesday launched a brand new model of its Qwen 2.5 Synthetic Intelligence (AI) mannequin that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

The bizarre timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max’s launch, on the primary day of the Lunar New 12 months when most Chinese language persons are off work and with their households, factors to the strain Chinese language AI startup DeepSeek’s meteoric rise prior to now three weeks has positioned on not simply abroad rivals, but in addition its home competitors.

“Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms … virtually throughout the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” Alibaba’s cloud unit mentioned in an announcement posted on its official WeChat account, referring to OpenAI and Meta’s most superior open-source AI fashions.

The Jan. 10 launch of DeepSeek’s AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 mannequin, in addition to the January 20 launch of its R1 mannequin, has shocked Silicon Valley and precipitated tech shares to plunge, with the Chinese language startup’s purportedly low growth and utilization prices prompting buyers to query big spending plans by main AI corporations in the USA.

However DeepSeek’s success has additionally led to a scramble amongst its home rivals to improve their very own AI fashions.

Two days after the discharge of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok proprietor ByteDance launched an replace to its flagship AI mannequin, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s o1 in AIME, a benchmark check that measures how effectively AI fashions perceive and reply to advanced directions.

This echoed DeepSeek’s declare that its R1 mannequin rivalled OpenAI’s o1 on a number of efficiency benchmarks.

Deepseek Versus Home Rivals 

The predecessor of DeepSeek’s V3 mannequin, DeepSeek-V2, triggered an AI mannequin value struggle in China after it was launched final Might.

The truth that DeepSeek-V2 was open-source and unprecedentedly low cost, just one yuan ($0.14) per 1 million tokens – or items of information processed by the AI mannequin – led to Alibaba’s cloud unit saying value cuts of as much as 97 % on a variety of fashions.

Different Chinese language tech firms adopted go well with, together with Baidu, which launched China’s first equal to ChatGPT in March 2023, and the nation’s most useful web firm Tencent.

Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek’s enigmatic founder, mentioned in a uncommon interview with Chinese language media outlet Waves in July that the startup “didn’t care” about value wars and that attaining AGI (synthetic normal intelligence) was its fundamental aim.

OpenAI defines AGI as autonomous methods that surpass people in most economically invaluable duties.

Whereas massive Chinese language tech firms like Alibaba have tons of of hundreds of staff, DeepSeek operates like a analysis lab, staffed primarily by younger graduates and doctorate college students from prime Chinese language universities.

Liang mentioned in his July interview that he believed China’s largest tech firms may not be effectively suited to the way forward for the AI trade, contrasting their excessive prices and top-down constructions with DeepSeek’s lean operation and unfastened administration model.

“Massive foundational fashions require continued innovation, tech giants’ capabilities have their limits,” he mentioned.

© Thomson Reuters 2025

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