BEIJING ¨C Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it says surpasses the highly acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.
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 DeepSeek¡¯s meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on not just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition.
¡°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.
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