Sorry, it's Alibaba. I was looking at a story on value meals while typing.
It does seem that a lot of companies are announcing their models though.
From Tech.com January 29:
The AI race gets frantic as Alibaba throws down a challenge at DeepSeek just days after ByteDance launches its own AI model.
Just as US AI innovators scramble hastily to counter the impact of Chinese AI wunderkind, DeepSeek, another Chinese company has issued a challenge.
Tech giant Alibaba has launched a new version of its Qwen2.5 AI LLM and is making the claim that it is faster and more efficient than DeepSeek-V3.
The Chinese company though also took aim at OpenAI and Meta in a move that will rile President Trump, stating that its new launch also “outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o… and Llama-3.1-405B.”What Is Qwen 2.5-Max?
This is the latest model to join the Qwen 2.5 family, which are built using both proprietary and open-source technology, in contrast to rivals who have opted for one or the other option. OpenAI and Baidu – another Chinese AI contender – have both largely used closed source approaches while DeepSeek’s agile and relatively small team uses an open source approach....
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BYD and CATL probably have something coming next week.
