There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI--DeepSeek-V3--in December 2024 and its R1 version in mid-January.

AI can now breed Boffins at Fudan University has created large language models (LLMs) which can replicate themselves autonomously during trials. The research showed that the LLMs developed by Meta and Alibaba exceeded expectations,

Analysts say China’s AI investment is just beginning to pay off, with more firms expected to launch their own models soon.

Nvidia stock trades lower, ASML rises after fourth-quarter bookings top analysts’ forecasts, and Wall Street awaits quarterly earnings Wednesday from Tesla, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms.

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 Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., has released its latest breakthrough artificial intelligence large language model just in time for the Chinese New Year: Qwen 2.5-Max, which it claims surpasses today’s most powerful AI models.

Microsoft through its OpenAI investment and GOOGL via Gemini models are direct competitors of DeepSeek along with Meta Platforms Llama models. DeepSeek is now facing competition in the domestic front with Alibaba, China's leading ecommerce giant, releasing its latest Qwen 2.5 model.

Mega-cap tech stocks like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Alphabet have spent literally billions of dollars to build expensive data centers to power AI filled with expensive Nvidia GPUs. Regardless of whether or not DeepSeek's claims are valid,

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the company's rollback of DEI programs and its community-notes model in a leaked recording of an all-hands meeting.

Artificial intelligence was the focus when tech giants Microsoft and Meta kicked off the first round of Big Tech earnings of 2025. Here's what we learned.

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.