Alibaba Group Holding Limited's new AI model Qwen 2.5-VL could boost its Cloud business growth, outperforming competitors. Click for my BABA stock update.

Those who have had professional dealings with DeepSeek say he is obsessed with human-like artificial general intelligence ( AGI) and the impact it could have on the world. In his pursuit of it, DeepSeek’s founder is upending ideas about technological progress both in the West and China.

Alibaba Group Holding released on Wednesday an upgraded version of its Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it said "comprehensively outperformed" in certain benchmark tests DeepSeek-V3, the large language model (LLM) launched in December by China's hottest start-up.

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

TikTok restored US services after Donald Trump pledged to delay enforcement of a ban. Yet it’s not clear whether the app’s Chinese parent is able — or willing — to secure a US backer in time to avoid a permanent shutdown.

Alibaba 's Qwen team has launched a new series of artificial intelligence (AI) models, called Qwen2.5-VL. The advanced models can handle a range of text and image analysis tasks, from parsing files and understanding videos to counting objects in images and even controlling a PC or smartphone.

Alibaba launches Qwen 2.5 AI model, claiming it outperforms DeepSeek-V3, GPT-4o, and Llama-3.1-405B. Learn more here!

As we pointed out with DeepSeek, user data collected by its online services will be storied in China, per its privacy policy. It's a similar story with Alibaba's Qwen Chat, which may store data in either its Singapore or Chinese datacenters.

Alibaba's Qwen team has released a new family of models, Qwen2.5-VL, that can control a PC and phone, plus handle other visual tasks.

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.

Chinese technology company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (阿里巴巴) yesterday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence (AI) model that it said surpassed the highly acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.