After DeepSeek Shock, Alibaba Unveils Rival AI Model That Uses Less Computing Power

Alibaba has unveiled a new version of its AI model, called Qwen2.5-Max, claiming benchmark scores that surpass both DeepSeek's recently released R1 model and industry standards like GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet. The model achieves these results using a mixture-of-experts architecture that requires significantly less computational power than traditional approaches.
The release comes amid growing concerns about China's AI capabilities, following DeepSeek's R1 model launch last week that sent Nvidi