It reflects the broader competitiveness of China’s frontier AI ecosystem,” says Scott Singer, a visiting scholar in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the

Alibaba (BABA) unveils its new artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model, QwQ-32B, stating it could rival DeepSeek's own AI while outperforming OpenAI's lower-cost model. Similar to DeepSeek's own market-rattling launch,

Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba on Thursday unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it claims can rival DeepSeek to solve complex problems, but is better because it uses far less data for its operationsIt said that its new compact reasoning model QwQ-32B is "comparable" to other larger cutting edge models such as OpenAI's o1-mini.