Chinese tech company Alibaba releases new AI model, claims it will surpass DeepSeek-V3

Interestingly, the release of the new AI model came on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when most of China is closed and people are off their work

Hyderabad: Soon after Chinese tech company DeepSeek gained attention for its new AI model, another Chinese tech company Alibaba, on Wednesday, released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 Artificial Intelligence model, claiming that it would surpass the DeepSeek-V3.

“As we welcome the Chinese New Year, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Qwen 2.5-VL, our latest flagship version-language model,” the tech company shared on social media X. It further added that Qwen 2.5-Maz outperforms GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B almost across the board.

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🎉 恭喜发财🧧🐍 As we welcome the Chinese New Year, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Qwen2.5-VL , our latest flagship vision-language model! 🚀

💗 Qwen Chat: https://t.co/T0nMBnRVBB
📖 Blog: https://t.co/FU7qEgE46j
🤗 Hugging Face: https://t.co/N9XSslZX8d
🤖 ModelScope:… pic.twitter.com/KgjC2lHcvR

— Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) January 27, 2025

Interestingly, the release of the new AI model came on the first day of the Lunar New Year, when most of China is closed and people are off their work. The release of a new AI model of the company on a holiday, when most of the country is closed, reflects the ongoing competition in the global AI market.

DeepSeek, within a span of three-weeks, has startled markets with its capacity to compete with industry leaders like Open AI. The tech company’s AI assistant became the No 1 downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store on January 27, shocking several other tech companies in the world.

The startup which was founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng released its first AI large language model in January 2024.