Chinese technology company Alibaba released a new version of the QWEN 2.5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday, which claims to surpass the acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.
The unusual timing of the release of Qwen 2.5-Max is on the first day of Lunar New Year, where most Chinese get off work and join their families, pointing out in the past three weeks that the mass rise of Chinese AI AI startup DeepSeek is not only an overseas competitor, And it is domestic competition.
“QWEN 2.5-MAX both outperformed gpt-4O, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405b,” Alibaba’s cloud force said in an announcement posted on its official WeChat account, referring to Openai and Meta’s most advanced Open Open announcement. – Source AI model.
The release of DeepSeek’s AI Assistant on January 10, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, and the release of the R1 model on January 20 shocked Silicon Valley and led to the development and use of Tech’s stock, the Chinese startup Low costs prompt investors to question huge spending plans by leading U.S. AI companies.
However, DeepSeek’s success also led contenders from its domestic competitors to upgrade their own AI models.
Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, Tiktok owner bytedance released an update to its flagship AI model that claims to outperform Microsoft Basked OpenAI’s O1 in AIME, a benchmark that measures how AI models understand and Response complex description.
This echoes DeepSeek’s claim that its R1 model is comparable to OpenAI’s O1 among several performance benchmarks.
DeepSeek vs. Domestic competitors
The predecessor of the DeepSeek V3 model DeepSeek-V2 triggered a price war in China after its release in May last year.
The fact that DeepSeek -v2 is open source and unprecedentedly cheap, with only 1 yuan ($0.14) per 1 million tokens or AI models processing data units, resulting in a 97% reduction in Alibaba’s cloud units announced. Model scope.
Other Chinese tech companies followed suit, including Baidu, which released its first equivalent in March 2023 with Chatgpt, and Tencent, the country’s most valuable internet company.
Liang Wenfeng, the mysterious founder of DeepSeek, said in a rare interview with the Chinese media wave in July that the startup “does not care” about the price war, and that achieving AGI (artificial universal intelligence) is its main goal.
Openai defines AGI as an autonomous system that transcends humanity in most economically valuable tasks.
Although large Chinese tech companies like Alibaba have hundreds of thousands of employees, DeepSeek operates like a research lab, consisting primarily of young graduates and doctoral students from China’s top universities.
Liang said in a July interview that he believes China’s largest tech company may not be well suited for the future of the AI industry, comparing its high cost and top-down structure with DeepSeek’s lean operation and loose management style .
“Large basic models require continuous innovation, and the capabilities of technology giants have their limits,” he said.
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