Alibaba

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  Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Omni AI Model With Real-Time Speech Generation Released

  Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Qwen 2.5 family on Wednesday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5 Omni, it is a flagship-tier end-to-end multimodal model. The company claims it can process a wide range of inputs, including text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses.

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  Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Vision Language Model Released in a Smaller Size, Packs Agentic Capabilities

  Alibaba’s Qwen team released another artificial intelligence (AI) model to the Qwen 2.5 family on Monday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5-VL-32B, the AI model comes with improved performance and optimisations. It is a vision language model with 32 billion parameters, and it joins the three billion, seven billion, and 72 billion parameter size models in the Qwen ...

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  Alibaba Releases AI Model That Reads Emotions to Take On OpenAI

  Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni in two demonstrations inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their clothes and environment. The Chinese tech giant is looking to outpace OpenAI's latest model.

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  Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QwQ-32B Open-Source Reasoning Model, Said to Perform Similar to DeepSeek-R1

  Alibaba’s Qwen Team, a division tasked with developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, released the QwQ-32B AI model on Wednesday. It is a reasoning model based on extended test time compute with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The developers claim that despite being smaller in size compared to the DeepSeek-R1, the model can match its perfor...

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  Alibaba Shares Rise By Over 7% After Launch Of DeepSeek competitor

  Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year's surprise tech star.

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  Tencent’s AI Bot Passes DeepSeek as China’s Favorite on iPhones

  Tencent Holdings’s Yuanbao became the most downloaded iPhone app in China this week. It overtook DeepSeek to claim the position. With this, Tencent has stolen a march on rivals like Alibaba and Baidu, which have made bigger bets on AI than the Shenzhen company.

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  Alibaba Releases Open-Source Wan 2.1 Suite of AI Video Generation Models, Claimed to Outperform OpenAI’s Sora

  Alibaba released a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models on Wednesday. Dubbed Wan 2.1, these are open-source models that can be used for both academic and commercial purposes. The Chinese e-commerce giant released the models in several parameter-based variants. Developed by the company’s Wan team, these models were first i...

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  China's Tech Giant Alibaba To Invest $50 Billion In AI, Cloud Computing

  Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Monday it will spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing over the next three years, a week after co-founder Jack Ma was seen meeting President Xi Jinping.

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  Apple Confirmed to Partner With Alibaba in China for AI-Powered Apple Intelligence Features: Report

  Apple’s partnership with Alibaba was reportedly confirmed on Thursday. As per the report, Alibaba chairperson Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai confirmed the news at the recently concluded World Governments Summit 2025 held in Dubai. The Chinese e-commerce giant will reportedly offer its artificial intelligence (AI) models and infrastructure to power Apple ...

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  Apple Reportedly Working With Alibaba to Bring Apple Intelligence Features to China

  Apple has reportedly partnered with Alibaba to co-develop artificial intelligence (AI) features for its iPhone and other devices in China. As per the report, the Cupertino-based tech giant went through multiple AI-focused companies before finally selecting Alibaba. The duo have reportedly co-developed several AI features that cater to Apple’s Chi...

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  Is DeepSeek Lying To You? IT Trainer And YouTuber Exposes The Shocking Truth

  IT trainer David Bombal conducted a test on DeepSeek, revealing alarming data privacy concerns.

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  Alibaba Releases Qwen 2.5 AI Model, Claims It Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

  The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-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 rise in the past three weeks has placed on not just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition.

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  Alibaba Launches New AI Model; Claims It Can Beat DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Llama

  Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek's AI, OpenAI's GPT-4o and Meta's Llama.

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  Alibaba Releases AI Model It Claims Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

  The Jan. 10 release of DeepSeek's AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, as well as the Jan. 20 release of its R1 model, has shocked Silicon Valley and caused tech shares to plunge

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  Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QVQ-72B Open Source Vision AI Model in Preview

  Alibaba’s Qwen research team has released another open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. Dubbed QVQ-72B, it is a vision-based reasoning model that can analyse visual information from images and understand the context behind them. The tech giant has also shared benchmark scores of the AI model and highlighted that on one specific test, it...