Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Quven 2.5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, claiming that it had crossed the highly acclaimed Dipsek-V3.
Unusual time for the release of Cuven 2.5-Max, the first day of the lunar New Year when most Chinese people are away from work and with their families, in the last three weeks, Chinese AI startups points to Deepsec’s meteorite pressure pressure, Not only foreign rivals, but also its domestic competition.
Alibaba’s Cloud Unit said in a announcement posted on its official WeChat account, “Cuven 2.5-Max outparforms … almost Board GPT-4O, Deepsek-V3 and Lama -3.1-405B.” -Source AI Model.
The release of AI Assistant of Deepsek on January 10, operated by the Deepsek-V3 model, as well as its R1 model release on January 20, has shook the silicon valley and dipped the technical shares, which has a sugar Startups allegedly have low development and use. Investors cost huge expenditure schemes by leading AI firms in the United States.
But the success of Deepsek has also created a scuffle to upgrade its AI model among its domestic rivals.
Two days after the release of Deepsek-R1, Tikokok owner Bidens released an update for its leading AI model, claiming that Microsoft-supported OpenAII’s O1 in AIM, a benchmark test claimed that How AI models understand well and respond to complex instructions.
It echoed the claim of Deepsek that its R1 model rivals OPENAI’s O1 at several performance benchmarks.
Deep domestic rivals
The erstwhile of the V3 model of the Deepsek, Dipsek-V2 triggered the AI ​​Model Price War in China after the release last May.
The fact is that Deepsek -V2 was open -source and unprecedentedly cheaper, only 1 yuan ($ 0.14) per 1 million tokens – or units of data processed by AI model – announced the cloud unit of Alibaba – up to 97 percent while announcing the cloud unit of Alibaba Cut the price of. Model limit.
Other Chinese tech companies followed the suit including Baidu, which released the first mat equivalent to the mat in March 2023 and the country’s most valuable internet company Tencent.
Deepsek’s esoteric founder Liang Wenfeng said in a rare interview with Chinese media outlet waves in July that the startup “did not care about price wars” and achieving AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) was its main goal.
Openai AGI defines as autonomous systems that cross humans in most economically valuable tasks.
While there are hundreds of thousands of employees in large Chinese technology companies like Alibaba, Deepsek acts like a research lab, mainly staffed by young graduates and doctoral students of top Chinese universities.
Liang said in his July interview that he believed that China’s largest technical companies could not be well suited for the future of the AI ​​industry, their high cost and unlike top-down structures, lean operations of Deepsek And with loose management style.
“Large fundamental models require constant innovation, their limitations in technical giants’ capabilities,” he said.
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