In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution,

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.

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

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 Limited's new AI model Qwen 2.5-VL could boost its Cloud business growth, outperforming competitors. Click for my BABA stock update.

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.

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 ...

DeepSeek’s rapid rise in the AI sector has sparked fierce competition with the U.S. With Alibaba’s Qwen2.5 Max claiming superiority and Microsoft integrating DeepSeek into Azure, the global AI race is more intense than ever.

DeepSeek last week launched a free AI assistant that it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent services. By Monday, the assistant had overtaken U.S. rival ChatGPT in downloads from Apple's App Store,

Amid recent artificial intelligence sector turbulence, Jim Cramer wondered if Baidu Inc. might be the next Chinese tech giant to draw market focus.