Max's debut is unusual, considering it arrived on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday, when most Chinese workers

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched a new version of its artificial intelligence model, Qwen 2.5-Max, claiming it surpasses leading competitors, including its domestic rival DeepSeek, which has been making waves in the AI sector.

Alibaba’s multimodal AI Qwen-VL now costs $0.41 per million input tokens, a price set to match ByteDance’s recently released model — also at $0.41 per million input tokens. Compared to OpenAI’s GPT-4.o, priced at $2.50 per million input tokens ...

Founded just 20 months ago in Alibaba’s home city of Hangzhou, DeepSeek has upended the industry with its low-cost, high-performance AI models. The pressure is now on established players like Alibaba,

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T he fast-rising Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is sparking national security concerns in the U.S., over fears that its AI models could be used by the Chinese government to spy on Americ

DeepSeek, now with models that rival the best of the West, has set the stage for a global war in AI inference pricing that is only now becoming clear to the world.

Few expect Donald Trump to ease Biden-era limitations on China's ability to get advanced chips in the wake of DeepSeek's success.

The Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has rattled markets with claims its latest AI model performs on a par with those of OpenAI, despite using less advanced, more energy efficient compute

Meta and other AI competitors are facing challenges from China's DeepSeek as its new AI model outperforms competitors at lower costs.

DeepSeek, an AI platform founded by Liang Wenfeng, surpasses ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app in the U.S., impacting major technology stocks. F