Alibaba Unveils Major AI Model Upgrade Ahead of DeepSeek Release

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled a major upgrade of its flagship AI model, accelerating a race with a panoply of startups and sectoral leaders aiming to get in ahead of Chinese sensation DeepSeek’s next big platform.

The latest iteration of Alibaba’s Qwen is designed to support AI agent tasks and can understand text, photo and video inputs, the company said in a statement on Monday. It is able to analyze videos as long as two hours, it added.