Alibaba AI model surpasses DeepSeek

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released Qwen2.5-Max, a new version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

The unusual timing of the Qwen2.5-Max’s release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s meteoric…