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

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.

Shares of Alibaba Group Holding ( BABA 1.56%) were flying higher on Wednesday. The company's stock gained 1.9% as of 1:50 p.m. ET, but rose as much as 5.5% earlier in the day. The move up comes as the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC -0.76%) and Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC -0.84%) lost 0.6% and 0.9%, respectively.

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.

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Alibaba claims that its new AI model, Qwen 2.5 Max, demonstrates superior performance over competitors like Meta’s Llama and DeepSeek’s V3. This development highlights the fierce competition among Chinese tech firms,

Alibaba Group Holding released on Wednesday an upgraded version of its Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it said "comprehensively outperformed" in certain benchmark tests DeepSeek-V3, the large language model (LLM) launched in December by China's hottest start-up.

Alibaba has just launched a new and improved version of its AI model, Qwen 2.5

The developer of the chatbox that shocked U.S. incumbents had access to Nvidia chips that its parent company providentially acquired just before a 2022 U.S. export ban.

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, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Group had missed out on it.