The global tech news is flooded with DeepSeek’s AI model and its massive capabilities, but there is a new competitor in the market that could change the game.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has recently launched its latest innovation: Qwen 2.5 Max. It can be accessed through Qwen Chat, a chatbot-like web interface that allows users to interact directly with the tool.
Alibaba made this announcement on the first day of the Lunar New Year, highlighting the immense pressure DeepSeek’s recent fame has placed on its international and domestic rivals.
DeepSeek’s success has sparked a scramble among domestic competitors to upgrade their own AI models. This is especially true after DeepSeek’s R1 model faced skepticism over the billions of dollars poured into AI infrastructure and whether they were justified.
Alibaba claims that Qwen 2.5 Max outperforms all its competitors, including GPT-4, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B. Following the release of this new technology, Alibaba’s shares in Hong Kong rose by 1.2%, and its stock in the US gained 1% in premarket trading on Wednesday.
Could Alibaba’s latest innovation surpass DeepSeek’s popular AI invention? Only time will tell.