Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) is inching up this morning as investors continue to hail its launch of a new AI model that it claims is more powerful than OpenAI as well as DeepSeek. The artificial intelligence assistant the company is calling Qwen 2.

Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) shares are trading higher Thursday as the company's latest artificial intelligence model, Qwen 2.5, gained traction.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) released a new version Wednesday of its Qwen large language model, known as Qwen2.5 Max, which it said topped DeepSeek's AI model across various benchmarks.

Alibaba claims that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.

Alibaba Group Holding published benchmark scores and praised what it called itself the world's leading performance with the release of its new model for

SoftBank would lead $40 billion round for the ChatGPT maker, some of which would go to Stargate AI infrastructure venture.

Apple is playing catch-up with its biggest tech peers in AI. A staggered rollout of Apple Intelligence also has meant that consumers have had to wait for many features. And competitors have jumped out ahead in other areas, such as smart glasses. Apple’s wearables business declined over the holidays as well.

Since Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek rattled Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its cost-effective models, the company has been accused of data theft through a practice that is common across the industry.

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

Alibaba stock is higher Wednesday after the Chinese conglomerate said its updated AI model outperforms DeepSeek and other competitors. Here's what to know.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE ... Alibaba Cloud said Qwen2.5 Max impressed versus OpenAI's GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ:META) Llama-3.1 ...