AI can now breed Boffins at Fudan University has created large language models (LLMs) which can replicate themselves autonomously during trials. The research showed that the LLMs developed by Meta and Alibaba exceeded expectations,

There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI--DeepSeek-V3--in December 2024 and its R1 version in mid-January.

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,

Nvidia stock trades lower, ASML rises after fourth-quarter bookings top analysts’ forecasts, and Wall Street awaits quarterly earnings Wednesday from Tesla, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms.

Max's release points to the pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on overseas rivals and domestic competition.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) released a new version Wednesday of its Qwen large language model, known as Qwen2.5 Max, which it said topped DeepSeek's AI model across various benchmarks.

Microsoft through its OpenAI investment and GOOGL via Gemini models are direct competitors of DeepSeek along with Meta Platforms Llama models. DeepSeek is now facing competition in the domestic front with Alibaba, China's leading ecommerce giant, releasing its latest Qwen 2.5 model.

Alibaba stock is higher Wednesday after the Chinese conglomerate said its updated AI model outperforms DeepSeek and other competitors. Here's what to know.

ALIBABA Group Holding published benchmark scores and touted what it called world-leading performance with its new artificial intelligence (AI) model release. Read more at The Business Times.

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., has released its latest breakthrough artificial intelligence large language model just in time for the Chinese New Year: Qwen 2.5-Max, which it claims surpasses today’s most powerful AI models.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE ... Qwen2.5 Max impressed versus OpenAI's GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ:META) Llama-3.1-405B in specific ...