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.

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

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) is inching up this morning as investors continue to hail its launch of a new AI model that it claims is more powerful than OpenAI as well as DeepSeek. The artificial intelligence assistant the company is calling Qwen 2.

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. "Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms

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

Ecommerce giant Alibaba claims that its Qwen 2.5-Max AI model can outperform DeepSeek, another upstart threatening ChatGPT's dominance.

Alibaba says the latest version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model can take on fellow Chinese firm DeepSeek's V3 as well as the top models from U.S. rivals OpenAI and Meta.

Shares of Alibaba (NYSE: NYSE:BABA) climbed 2.8% as the company's latest AI model, Qwen2.5-Max, garnered significant interest. The company announced the impressive performance results of the model and the availability of its API through Alibaba Cloud,

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.