DeepSeek, a 20-month-old start-up that was founded in Alibaba’s home city, Hangzhou, became a global sensation this week and figures prominently as the first benchmark that Alibaba appears to now measure itself against. Alibaba Cloud also shared scores that suggest its AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s models in certain benchmarks.
Alibaba 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' Llama and DeepSeek’s V3 model in various tests, according to figures in Alibaba Cloud’s announcement on WeChat. Alongside Tencent Holdings and Baidu, Alibaba has poured significant resources into its cloud services segment and is engaged in a hot contest to recruit China’s AI developers to use its tools.
