India, Jan. 29 -- Chinese tech giant Alibaba has rolled out a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence (AI) model, claiming that it outperformed DeepSeek's most advanced open source AI model that has taken the world by storm.

The company's cloud computing unit Alibaba Cloud said in its official WeChat account that Qwen 2.5-Max surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Meta's Llama-3.1-405B 'almost' across the board, Reuters reported.

The move comes at a time when Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has shattered beliefs about the cost of AI, putting immense pressure on leading AI firms like OpenAI and Meta.

Last week, DeepSeek launched its free AI assistant DeepSeek-V3, claiming that it uses less data and costs only a fraction of s...