Alibaba Touts New AI Model Superior to DeepSeek’s and Meta’s

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. published benchmark scores and touted what it called world-leading performance with its new artificial intelligence model release.

The upgraded Qwen 2.5 Max edition scored better than Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama and DeepSeek’s V3 model in various tests, according to figures in Alibaba Cloud’s announcement on WeChat. Alongside Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Baidu Inc., Alibaba has poured significant resources into its cloud services segment and is engaged in a hot contest to recruit China’s AI developers to use its tools.