There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI--DeepSeek-V3--in December 2024 and its R1 version in mid-January.

Different research teams have demonstrated jailbreaks against ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Alibaba’s Qwen AI models.

Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, released a new version of its AI model and made big claims — notably that it outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT and the newly ascending DeepSeek.

Analysts say China’s AI investment is just beginning to pay off, with more firms expected to launch their own models soon.

Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) shares are trading higher Thursday as the company's latest artificial intelligence model, Qwen 2.5, gained traction.

Chinese tech company Alibaba released a new version of the Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that surpasses DeepSeek's latest model.

Max's release points to the pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on overseas rivals and domestic competition.

The Tuesday release of Qwen 2.5-Max is the second big LLM release out of China in the past two weeks alongside DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research startup, made waves with claims that R1 could rival the performance of the most capable models built by U.

By Eduardo Baptista 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.