Washington DC, March 6 -- Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba on Thursday unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it claims can rival DeepSeek to solve complex problems, but is better because it uses far less data for its operations

It said that its new compact reasoning model QwQ-32B is "comparable" to other larger cutting edge models such as OpenAI's o1-mini.

"Today, we release QwQ-32B, our new reasoning model with only 32 billion parameters, delivering performance comparable to other larger cutting edge models," a X post by the Alibaba Group founded by billionaire Jack Ma said .

Alibaba's AI model follows in the wake of another Chinese company DeepSeek, which had in January 2025 released its low-cost AI model ...