Alibaba asserts its latest AI model, Qwen 2.5-Max, surpasses DeepSeek's R1, OpenAI's GPT-4 and other leading models. The announcement comes amidst a fierce competition in the global AI landscape.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba is making a bold move in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race, asserting that its latest iteration of Qwen 2.5 can rival the leading AI models from both international and domestic competitors. Alibaba 's declaration comes amidst the recent buzz surrounding fellow Chinese firm DeepSeek, which has sent shockwaves through the U.S. tech sector this week by emerging as a potential contender to leading American AI companies.
Alibaba, however, insists that its latest offering surpasses all others in nearly every aspect. Alibaba's cloud unit boldly stated in an announcement on its official WeChat account that 'Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms... almost across the board GPT-4, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,' referencing OpenAI and Meta's most advanced open-source AI models. Further bolstering its claims, Alibaba's Qwen account on X (formerly Twitter) posted performance statistics comparing Qwen 2.5-Max against its competitors, stating, 'It achieves competitive performance against the top-tier models, and outcompetes DeepSeek V3 in benchmarks like Arena Hard, LiveBench, LiveCodeBench, GPQA-Diamond.'The strategic timing of Qwen 2.5-Max's release, coinciding with the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are typically with their families, highlights the significant pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has exerted on both international and domestic rivals. DeepSeek's Jan. 10 release of its AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, followed by the Jan. 20 release of its R1 model, has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and triggered a decline in tech shares. The Chinese startup's purportedly low development and operational costs have prompted investors to question the substantial spending plans of leading AI firms in the U.S. This success has ignited a race among domestic competitors to enhance their own AI models. Just two days after the launch of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok owner ByteDance unveiled an update to its flagship AI model, claiming it surpassed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test evaluating AI models' ability to comprehend and respond to complex instructions. This echoed DeepSeek's assertion that its R1 model rivaled OpenAI's o1 on several performance benchmarks.
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