There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI — DeepSeek-V3 — in December and its R1 version earlier this month.

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By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3.

The Tuesday release of Qwen 2.5-Max is the second big LLM release out of China in the past two weeks alongside DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI research startup, made waves with claims that R1 could rival the performance of the most capable models built by U.

China's frugal AI innovation is yielding cost-effective models like Alibaba's Qwen 2.5, rivaling top-tier models with less compute. Using Mixture of Experts (MoE) and techniques like Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA),