Amid recent artificial intelligence sector turbulence, Jim Cramer wondered if Baidu Inc. might be the next Chinese tech giant to draw market focus.

Chinese tech company Alibaba released a new version of the Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that surpasses DeepSeek's latest model.

Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek's AI, OpenAI's GPT-4o and Meta's Llama.

The AI race gets frantic as Alibaba throws down a challenge at DeepSeek just days after ByteDance launches its own new AI model.

DeepSeek, a 20-month-old startup founded in Alibaba’s home city, Hangzhou, became a global sensation this week and figures prominently as the first benchmark that Alibaba appears to measure itself against. Alibaba Cloud also shared scores that suggest its AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s models in certain benchmarks.

Alibaba Group Holding published benchmark scores and praised what it called itself the world's leading performance with the release of its new model for

Amid the buzz surrounding DeepSeek, domestic AI rival Alibaba Cloud’s ( NYSE: BABA) own Qwen team released a new family of artificial intelligence models, Qwen2.5-VL, capable of performing a number of text and image analysis tasks.

Alibaba's introduction of Qwen 2.5 Max comes as a strategic response to the rise of DeepSeek. The latter recently launched the powerful R1 model, which has created quite a stir in the tech world for being cost-effective and energy efficient than its rivals.

While AI stocks may rebound from their DeepSeek-induced market sell-off, the U.S. clearly faces a threat from China in artificial intelligence. What you should know.

Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok owner ByteDance released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that talks are necessary to resolve the problems between his country and neighboring Afghanistan.