The Chinese digital giant Alibaba announced the launch of a new model of its artificial intelligence (AI) Qwen, called Qwen2.5-Max, which the company claims surpasses "almost completely" the V3 of DeepSeek and other prominent models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Meta's Llama-3.1-405B.
Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Max stands out for its advanced ability to understand texts, tables, diagrams, graphs, and images, as well as analyze videos longer than an hour and provide accurate answers to content-related inquiries. This AI can identify specific segments in videos with great precision.
Alizila, Alibaba's corporate news portal, details that this new model can convert data from invoices, forms, and tables into structured products, which is particularly useful for automating the processing of financial reports and legal documents.
Alibaba, along with other companies like Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Baidu Inc., has invested significant resources in developing cloud services and is engaged in an intense competition to attract AI developers in China to use their tools.
DeepSeek, a startup founded in Hangzhou that has gained prominence in the AI field, is being considered a direct competitor to Alibaba in this area. The Chinese company has shared data indicating that its AI outperforms models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic in specific tests.
Some cloud service providers like Alibaba and Tencent have been cutting prices in an effort to increase their user base, and the recent popularity of DeepSeek along with other emerging startups in China has contributed to an acceleration in this "price war."
Alibaba Cloud has shown confidence in the capabilities of its new AI Qwen2.5-Max by comparing its performance with other known models, thereby creating heated competition in the field of artificial intelligence on an international level.
