Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednsday Released A New Version of its Qwen 2.5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model that it Claimed Surpassed The High-CCLAIMEDEK-V3.
The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-max's release, on the first day of the lunar new year when chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure chinese ree weeks have placed on Not just just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition.
“Qwen 2.5-max outperforms … Almost Across the Board GPT-4o, Deepsek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” Alibaba's cloud unit said in an announcing on its own eni and meta's most advanced open -Source ai models.
The jan. 10 Release of Deepsek's AI Assistant, Powered by the Deepseek-V3 Model, As Well as the January 20 Release of Its R1 Model, Has Shocked silic Valley and Causes Tech Shares to Pluna, Witn Ortedly low Development and Usage Costs Prompting Investors To question huge specs by leading ai firms in the united states.
But Deepsek's success has also been also LED to a scramble Among its domestic competitors to upgrade their own ai models.
Two days after the release of Deepsek-R1, Tiktok Owner bytedance an update to its flagship ai model, which it claimd outpermed Outpermed Microsoft-Backed Microsoft-Backed OPENAI'S Measures How Well AI Models Undrstand and Respond to Complex Instructions.
This echoed deepsek's claim that its R1 model rivalled Openai's O1 on Several Performance Benchmarks.
Deepsek Versus Domestic Competitors
The Predcessor of Deepsek's V3 Model, Deepsek-V2, triggered an ai model price war in china after it was released last may.
The fact that Deepsek -V2 was open -source and unprecedentedly cheap, only 1 yuan ($ 0.14) per 1 million tokens – or units of data of data processed by the ai model – LED to Alibaba ' of up to 97 percent on a Range of models.
Other Chinese Tech Companies Followed Suit, Including Baidu, Which Released China's First Equivalent to Chatgpt in March 2023, and The Country's Most Valuable Internet Company Tencent.
Liang Wenfeng, Deepsek's Enigmatic Founder, said a rare interview with chinese media outlet waves in July that the startup “did not care” About Price Wars and that Achiel ) Was its main goal.
Openai defines agi as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks.
While Large Chinese Tech Companies like Alibaba Have Hundreds of Thousands of Employees, Deepsek Operates Like a Research Lab, Staffed Mainly by Young Graduates and DoCOTEATE STUDERTE STUROTE STUROM ES.
Liang said in his july interview Action and loose management style.
“Large Foundational Models Require Continued Innovation, Tech Giants' Capabilites have their limits,” He said.
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