, Jan. 30 -- Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba has introduced its Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, boldly asserting that it has outpaced DeepSeek's renowned DeepSeek-V3 model, reports First Post.

Unveiled on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the launch of Qwen 2.5-Max highlights the intensifying competition within China's AI sector, reflecting the pressure DeepSeek's rapid ascent has exerted not only on global competitors but also on domestic ones.

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Alibaba's cloud division revealed on WeChat that Qwen 2.5-Max outperformed OpenAI's GPT-4, DeepSeek-V3, and Meta's Llama-3.1-405B across various performance metrics. The timing of this announcement, during the Lunar New Year festivities, underscores the urgency...