Alibaba Group Holding Limited's new AI model Qwen 2.5-VL could boost its Cloud business growth, outperforming competitors. Click for my BABA stock update.

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

BEIJING: Chinese technology major Alibaba has unveiled an upgraded version of its AI model, Qwen 2.5, which it claims is more powerful than ..|News Track

Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holding’s (NYSE:BABA) cloud unit released a new family of AI models, Qwen2.5-VL, that can parse files, comprehend videos, count objects in images, and control a PC.

Alibaba Group Holding released on Wednesday an upgraded version of its Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it said "comprehensively outperformed" in certain benchmark tests DeepSeek-V3, the large language model (LLM) launched in December by China's hottest start-up.

Alibaba says it's new artificial intelligence model is superior to DeepSeek. It says the Qwen 2.5 Max edition scored better than Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama and DeepSeek’s V3 model in various tests. Matthew Bloxham of Bloomberg Intelligence is on ".

Analysts say China’s AI investment is just beginning to pay off, with more firms expected to launch their own models soon.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. published benchmark scores and touted what it called world-leading performance with its new artificial intelligence model release. The upgraded Qwen 2.5 Max edition scored better than Meta Platforms Inc.