The Chinese technology company Alibaba He launched a new version of his artificial intelligence model Qwen 2.5, and assured that he exceeds the feared Deepseek–V3. Consequently, Chinese giant actions The e-commerce rose almost 5% but finally cut profits to 0.6%. However, in the last month almost 15%rise, an important fact for holders of Yields.
The unusual moment of the launch of the Qwen 2.5-Max, On the first day of the New Year Lunarwhen most Chinese are on vacation and their families, rEfleja the pressure generated by the meteoric promotion of the Chinese deepseek startup In the last three weeks, not only about their foreign rivals, but also about their local competition.
“Qwen 2.5-Max exceeds in almost all aspects to GPT-4O, Deepseek-V3 and call-3.1-405b,” said Alibaba’s cloud unit in an announcement published in its official Wechat account, in reference to the models of more advanced artificial intelligence of OpenAi and goal.
The launch of the Deepseek’s assistant on January 10, promoted by the Deepseek-V3 model, along with the presentation of its R1 model on January 20, Silicon Valley has shaken and caused falls in technological actions. The supposed efficiency in Deepseek development and use costs has led investors to question the huge expense plans of the main companies in the United States.
However, Depseek’s success has also unleashed fierce competition among its national rivals to improve its own AI models.
Two days after the launch of the Deepseek-R1, Bytedance, the Tiktok matrix company, presented an update of its badge model, stating that it exceeded OPENAI’s O1 model, backed by Microsoft, in Aime, a reference test that measured The ability of AI models to understand and respond to complex instructions.
This echoed Depseek’s statement that his R1 model rivaled OPENAI O1 in several performance tests.
Deepseek against its local competitors
The predecessor model of Deepseek-V3, the Deepseek-V2, unleashed a price war in the AI models sector in China after its launch last May.
The fact that Deepseek-V2 out of open and extremely economic source-with an unprecedented cost of only 1 yuan ($ 0.14) per million processed tokens-led to the Alibaba cloud unit to announce price cuts of up to one 97% in a variety of models.
Other Chinese technology companies followed the same path, including Baidu (9888.hk), which launched the first Chinese equivalent of Chatgpt in March 2023, and Tencent (0700.hk), the most valuable Internet company in the country.
Liang Wenfeng, the enigmatic founder of Deepseek, said in a rare interview with the Chinese media Waves In July that the startup “did not care” for price wars and that its main objective was to achieve general artificial intelligence (AGI).
Openai defines AGI as autonomous systems that exceed humans in most economically valuable tasks.
While large Chinese technology companies such as Alibaba have hundreds of thousands of employees, Depseek operates as a research laboratory, mainly made up of young graduates and doctoral students from the main Chinese universities.
In his July interview, Liang expressed his belief that the largest Chinese technology companies may not be well positioned for the future of the AI industry, contrasting their high costs and hierarchical structures with the agile operation and the flexible management style of Deepseek.
“Foundational models require continuous innovation, and the capacities of technological giants have their limits,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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