There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI--DeepSeek-V3--in December 2024 and its R1 version in mid-January.

New AI model Qwen2.5-Max has been released by Alibaba Alibaba claims it's superior to DeepSeek-V3 and others You can try it now using the Qwen Chat chatbot Things move quickly in the AI sphere, and no sooner have we got used to having DeepSeek around,

Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, released a new version of its AI model and made big claims — notably that it outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT and the newly ascending DeepSeek. "Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms