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Alibaba's Latest AI Model, QwQ-32B, Beats Larger Rivals in Math and Reasoning

Chris McKay• March 6, 2025 • 2 min read

Despite having far fewer parameters, Qwen’s new QwQ-32B model outperforms DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI’s o1-mini in mathematical benchmarks and scientific reasoning, showcasing the power of reinforcement learning.

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Apple Reportedly Partners with Alibaba for AI in China

Chris McKay• February 11, 2025 • 2 min read

Apple apparently dropped Baidu as its initial AI partner and rejected models from other Chinese firms, including DeepSeek.

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Alibaba Announces Qwen2.5-Max, Claims it's Better than DeepSeek

Chris McKay• January 28, 2025 • 2 min read

The announcement arrives shortly after DeepSeek introduced its R1 model that surprised many with its high performance and low operating costs.

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Alibaba Unveils QVQ, an Open-Weight AI Model Focused on Visual Reasoning

Chris McKay• December 24, 2024 • 2 min read

QVQ is built upon Qwen2-VL-72B's architecture but incorporates refinements tailored to multimodal reasoning.

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Alibaba Leads $600 Million Funding Round for Chinese AI Firm MiniMax

Chris McKay• March 6, 2024 • 2 min read

If confirmed, the MiniMax deal would mark Alibaba's second major AI investment this year, following its lead role in a $1 billion funding round for Beijing-based Moonshot AI in February.

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Meet EMO, Alibaba's New AI That Can Make Any Photo Talk or Sing

Chris McKay• February 28, 2024 • 2 min read

By enabling the generation of highly expressive and lifelike videos from a single reference image and audio input, EMO opens new avenues in entertainment, telepresence, and beyond.

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Alibaba Unveils Three New Open-Source AI Models to Advance Research

Chris McKay• November 30, 2023 • 3 min read

Qwen-72B was trained on an unprecedented 3 trillion tokens of multi-lingual datasets encompassing text, code, and mathematical content in both English and Chinese.

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Alibaba Pilots Commerce-Focused AI Suite for its International Market

Chris McKay• November 6, 2023 • 2 min read

The pilot includes testing over 15 Aidge APIs with software partners. These span key commerce areas like consumer insights, content localization, marketing, design, and customer service.

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Alibaba Cloud Unveils Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 and Industry-Specific AI Models

Chris McKay• November 5, 2023 • 2 min read

The new model demonstrates remarkable capabilities in understanding complex instructions, copywriting, reasoning, memorizing, and preventing hallucinations.

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Alibaba Releases New Generative AI Capable of Complex Image Understanding and Dialog

Chris McKay• August 25, 2023 • 2 min read

The new models represent a significant step forward for multimodal AI that can process both visual and textual data in English and Chinese.

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Alibaba Open Sources Qwen, a 7B Parameter AI Model

Chris McKay• August 3, 2023 • 2 min read

Qwen achieves state-of-the-art results compared to LLaMA and other leading models on tests of knowledge, coding, mathematical reasoning and translation capabilities.

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Alibaba's Latest AI Model, QwQ-32B, Beats Larger Rivals in Math and Reasoning

Apple Reportedly Partners with Alibaba for AI in China

Alibaba Announces Qwen2.5-Max, Claims it's Better than DeepSeek

Alibaba Unveils QVQ, an Open-Weight AI Model Focused on Visual Reasoning

Alibaba Leads $600 Million Funding Round for Chinese AI Firm MiniMax

Meet EMO, Alibaba's New AI That Can Make Any Photo Talk or Sing

Alibaba Unveils Three New Open-Source AI Models to Advance Research

Alibaba Pilots Commerce-Focused AI Suite for its International Market

Alibaba Cloud Unveils Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 and Industry-Specific AI Models

Alibaba Releases New Generative AI Capable of Complex Image Understanding and Dialog

Alibaba Open Sources Qwen, a 7B Parameter AI Model