The war for supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence is fought vertiginously and practically every day new protagonists arise that claim to overcome the recently launched tools.
In addition, in recent days the battle seems to have moved to Asian field, with the main digital companies of China struggling to take a place in the AI market.
If at the beginning of the week it was Deepseek the AI that monopolized all the looks internationally, now it is the Chinese giant Alibaba who has announced the launch of its new artificial intelligence model.
With the name of QWen2.5-Maxit is the latest version of the AI of Alibaba, a company that has sure exceeds “practically in its entirety” the capacities of the R1 version of Deepseek V3, but also of GPT-4o of OpenAI and flame 3.1 405b of finish.
As the company has recognized through its account in the Wechat instant messaging app-the most used in China, where it is not allowed Sonnet of Anthropic.
The firm indicates that this AI stands out for the advanced understanding of texts, tables, diagrams, graphics and image disposition. In addition, it is able to understand and use the content of videos of up to one hour, offering answers about them and being able to identify the second to second frames.
Alibaba points out that this version of its AI – one of the most powerful chatgpt alternatives today – is also able to process invoices, forms and tables, which makes it a kind of productivity software that could lighten administrative tasks in SMEs and large companies.
With this Alibaba launch he enters the struggle for dominating the AI market after having launched less than two years ago, in April 2023, its first conversational model, called Tongyi Qianwen, which in Mandarin would translate as «the truth, from a thousand questions ».
It rivals face to face with Depseek, other Chinese IA such as that developed by the Baidu searches giant and also against US companies such as Openai and Meta.