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Alibaba unveils AI model claimed to outperform DeepSeek-V3

Silicon Valley was left shaken, and tech shares plummeted over the release on Jan. 10 of the AI assistant driven by the DeepSeek-V3 model, besides the Jan. 20 launch of its R1 model.

Alibaba, a leading Chinese tech firm, on Wednesday released a version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that, according to Alibaba, outdoes the highly revered DeepSeek-V3.

The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max’s release, which coincided with the first day of the Lunar New Year, when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on not just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition.

“Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms. Almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” Alibaba’s cloud unit said in an announcement posted on its official WeChat account, referring to OpenAI and Meta’s most advanced open-source AI models.

The release of the AI assistant powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model on Jan. 10 and the R1 model on Jan. 20 has shocked Silicon Valley and caused tech shares to plunge, with the Chinese startup’s purportedly low development and usage costs prompting investors to question huge spending plans by leading AI firms in the United States.

However, DeepSeek’s success has led to a scramble among domestic rivals to upgrade their AI models. Two days after the roll-out of DeepSeek-R1, ByteDance, which owns TikTok, rolled out an update on its flagship AI model, touting it had outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s o1 in AIME. This benchmark test assesses how well AI models can understand and respond to complex instructions.

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