#Now the competition to surpass DeepSeek is also taking place in China itself: Alibaba has just announced Qwen2.5-Max

Dizzying days in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). When it seemed that American tech giants had no rivals capable of overshadowing them, DeepSeek caused a genuine earthquake. The excellent performance of the latest language models from the Chinese company translated into a direct threat to Silicon Valley firms, which lost billions of dollars in market value within hours.

Alibaba, in the race to surpass DeepSeek

Things are moving very quickly in the field of AI. Alibaba, the e-commerce giant known as "the Chinese Amazon," has just launched its most advanced language model: Qwen2.5-Max. We are looking at a pre-trained alternative with 20 trillion tokens and improved through supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).