By Kimberley Kao
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba released a new version of its artificial intelligence model which it claims surpasses DeepSeek's AI model across various benchmarks.
In a statement, Alibaba's cloud unit introduced the new version of its Qwen large language model, known as Qwen2.5 Max.
The company stated that Quen2.5 Max "achieves competitive performance against the top-tier models," referencing those from OpenAI, DeepSeek and Meta, based on benchmark tests it conducted.
Alibaba's announcement comes after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sparked a market frenzy earlier in the week with the release of its latest AI model.
DeepSeek says its AI model boasts comparable problem-solving abilities to OpenAI's GPT-4o reasoning model while operating at a fraction of the cost per use.
Write to Kimberley Kao at kimberley.kao@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 29, 2025 02:05 ET (07:05 GMT)
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