Alibaba Releases New Qwen 2.5 AI Model, Claims It Outperforms DeepSeek V-3
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has unveiled an upgraded Qwen 2.5 AI model, claiming it outperforms DeepSeek—the rival AI that sent Nvidia stock tumbling earlier this week. In a Jan. 28 X post , the Alibaba cloud team said on the AI’s official X page that the new Qwen model “achieves competitive performance against the top-tier models, and outcompetes DeepSeek V3 in benchmarks like Arena Hard, LiveBench, LiveCodeBench, GPQA-Diamond.“ Rivals Reel From DeepSeek Revelations Qwen 2.5-Max’s debut was unusual, coming on the first day of the Lunar New Year at a time when Chinese are off work. It underscores how the sensational claims made by DeepSeek are pressuring both foreign rivals like OpenAI and Meta, as well as local competitors. Revelations about the performance of DeepSeek sent tech stocks crashing on Monday, with leading AI chip maker Nvidia losing almost $600 billion of its market cap in a single day, the most in stock market history. Two days after the...