Last Updated on January 30, 2025
Alibaba has launched its new Artificial Intelligence (AI) model Qwen 2.5 Max available on its chatbot (Qwen Chat) and claims that it can beat the recent sensation DeepSeek and ChatGPT in performance. The new development comes at a time when DeepSeek, a Chinese made global headlines for its effectiveness despite coming on a low budget.
Alibaba says that its advanced large language model (LLM) Qwen 2.5 Max beats large language models such as DeepSeek V3, OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and Meta’s Llama. “Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” Reuters quoted Alibaba’s cloud unit. That means that Alibaba AI chatbot is now more powerful and effective at handling user queries on a large range of topics with more precision.
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What is Qwen 2.5 Max?
Qwen 2.5 Max is a versatile Alibaba AI LLM, the latest AI model to be exact, and comes with higher-level capabilities in natural language processing. It can be used for text generation, image & audio processing, chatbot, and AI tool use.
For the majority, the LLM is available through Qwen Chat, an AI chatbot platform of Alibaba. The AI model is trained on 18 trillion tokens so it can deliver up to 128,000 tokens (a unit of text) in a single conversation. That means you get detailed responses to your queries even on complex topics.
How to access Alibaba AI chatbot?
You need to do the following to access the Alibaba AI chatbot:
- Enter chat.qwenlm.ai on your web browser
- Sign in or Sign up using your Gmail account
- Choose a version of Qwen2.5 from the left drop-down menu
- Enter your queries in the chat box
DeepSeek forces domestic AI competition
It seems that the Chinese AI space has its own competition from domestic firms. DeepSeek V2 started a price war in China in May, 2024. It started at 1 yuan per million tokens that’s NRS 17.6 ($0.14). This forced Alibaba to lower the costs of its own cloud services by up to 97%. Baidu and Tencent have also made their own moves as the AI competition grows in the country.
Anyway, the Qwen2.5 Max competes with DeepSeek V3. And it’s very diverse in capabilities. It can generate text responses, video through text prompts, process audio, etc.
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Competition growing and growing
It already looks like AI will be one of the largest topics in 2025. DeepSeek has already shown the signs and compelled American firms to act further. OpenAI says that it’s working on an even more powerful language model than DeepSeek-R1 while reserving praise for the Chinese startup. Likewise, Meta, Baidu, and other Chinese enterprises will also strengthen their AI development.
It’s more likely now that the competition will be between the US and China or among the Chinese firms. But one thing is for sure with more contest, more powerful and precise AI services are going to dominate the digital space.
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Who will get the upper hand in the AI race in 2025? Can you make a guess? Do share what you think about these AI developments in our comment section below.
