
As the global tech sector was catching up to DeepSeek's R1 AI model launch last week, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) surprised everyone by releasing the Qwen 2.5 Max large language model on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Alibaba claimed that Qwen 2.5 Max topped DeepSeek's R1 across various benchmarks and showed impressive results compared to OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o and Meta Platform's (NASDAQ:META) Llama-3.1-405B model.