BEIJING: Alibaba, a Chinese internet corporation, announced a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model on Wednesday, claiming it outperformed the much-lauded DeepSeek-V3.
The Qwen 2.5-Max’s odd release date—the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the majority of Chinese are off from work and spending time with their families—indicates how much pressure DeepSeek’s explosive growth over the last three weeks has put on both its domestic and international competitors.
In a posting on its official WeChat account, Alibaba’s cloud unit stated that “Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms […] almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B,” alluding to the most cutting-edge open-source AI models from OpenAI and Meta.
