Chinese tech company Alibaba released a new version of the Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that surpasses DeepSeek's latest model.
In a rare move, Chinese tech company Alibaba released a new version of the Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model during the Lunar New Year. The tech firm claims this update surpasses DeepSeek-V3, which had a meteoric rise in popularity in the past three weeks. With this release, we're now seeing that not only are US companies intensifying the AI race against the Chinese, but local competition also wants to stay ahead.
AI race intensifies in the US Over here, OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, teased several 'exciting new features' coming to ChatGPT as DeepSeek's popularity exploded. Then, the company announced a new ChatGPT Gov tool to strengthen ties with the US government, followed by a post with Microsoft's Satya Nadella about all the crazy new stuff OpenAI has planned. This is all due to DeepSeek's sophisticated R1 reasoning model.
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