The Chinese technology company Alibaba launched a new version of its artificial intelligence model (AI) qwen 2.5 that said it exceeded the highly acclaimed Deepseek-V3.
The unusual moment of the launch of Qwen 2.5-Max, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when most Chinese are out of work and their families, points to the Chinese pressure of China Deepseek. Not only rivals abroad, but also its national competition.
“Qwen 2.5-Max exceeds … almost in all areas GPT-4O, Deepseek-V3 and call-3.1-405b,” said the Alibaba Cloud Unit in an announcement published in its official Wechat account, referring to the most advanced open source of Openi and Meta. AI models.
The release of January 10, Deepseek’s Ai Assistant, promoted by the Deepseek-V3 model, as well as the release of January 20 of its R1 model, has shocked Silicon Valley and has caused technological actions to submerge, with the supposedly Low development and use costs of the Chinese startup. Which leads investors to question huge expense plans by leading AI companies in the United States.
But Deepseek’s success has also led to a struggle among its national competitors to update its own AI models.
Two days after the launch of Deepseek-R1, the owner of Tiktok Bytedance published an update of his badge model, which he said he surpassed Openi’s O1 in Aime, backed by Microsoft, a reference test that measures how well the models of They understand and respond to complex instructions.
This echoed Depseek’s statement that his R1 model rivaled Oprai’s O1 at various performance points.