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Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1, with only 32 billion parameters. According to a release from Alibaba, “the performance of QwQ-32B highlights the power of reinforcement learning (RL),…
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Alibaba open sources its video-generation AI model – Computerworld
“It’s going to be a huge market,” Freund said, with a lot of interest from creative, media, and enterprise users. Freund said enterprises spend a lot of money on multimedia, with many text-to-image generation models from Adobe, OpenAI, Google and X.AI already being used in the cloud. Video is the next step. Chinese AI providers are already shaking up the market,…
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Apple’s Chinese AI problem (perhaps) solved with Alibaba – Computerworld
So, when is Apple Intelligence coming to China? News of the deal emerges just weeks before April, when Apple has already suggested it will introduce Simplified Chinese localization for Apple Intelligence. While both Apple and Alibaba must now gain regulatory approval for their plan, the signal within the smoke suggests a Q2 introduction of Chinese Apple Intelligence support. This could…
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Alibaba introduces Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, claims edge over DeepSeek – Computerworld
DeepSeek’s rapid ascent over the past three weeks has intensified rivalry not only with global players but also among Chinese tech firms. “The AI model war is no longer just China versus the US – competition within China is also intensifying as companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba, and others innovate and optimize their models to serve a high-scale domestic market,” said…
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