🎉 Ringing in the Chinese New Year with a bang, tech giant Alibaba has just dropped its latest AI marvel: the Qwen 2.5-Max model. Launched on the first day of the Lunar New Year, this cutting-edge AI is claimed to outshine the much-hyped DeepSeek-V3! 🚀
But that's not all! On Tuesday, Alibaba also open-sourced its visual model, the Qwen 2.5-VL. Talk about starting the year with double the tech excitement! 🤖✨
The company's cloud unit took to WeChat to announce, \"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms… almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B.\" In other words, they're saying it's a game-changer in the AI world! 🌐💡
Meanwhile, DeepSeek has been shaking things up too. Their January 10 release of an AI assistant powered by DeepSeek-V3, and the subsequent launch of their R1 model, has left Silicon Valley reeling. 📈💥 Tech shares have taken a tumble, with investors questioning the massive spending by U.S. AI giants when DeepSeek is serving up innovation without the hefty price tag. 💸🤔
The AI race is heating up! 🔥 In response to DeepSeek's success, competitors are hustling to level up. Just two days after DeepSeek-R1's debut, ByteDance—the company behind TikTok—unveiled an update to its flagship AI model. They claim it outperforms Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in the AIME benchmark, which tests how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions. 🏃♂️💨
This mirrors DeepSeek's assertion that their R1 model rivals OpenAI's o1 on several performance benchmarks. The competition is fierce, and everyone is upping their game. 🎮👾
Oh, and did we mention? On the same day of their big AI launch, Alibaba also provided cloud computing support for the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala—the annual variety show that blends music, dance, opera, martial arts, and comedy, watched by billions! Talk about multitasking! 📺🎊
With all this action, it's clear that the AI scene is the place to watch in 2025. Buckle up, tech enthusiasts—it's going to be a wild ride! 🎢🌟
(With input from Reuters)
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Alibaba drops AI model to rival DeepSeek on Chinese New Year's Day
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