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The Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba has joined the intense AI race with its latest Large Language Model, Qwen 2.5. On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, this tech company has launched this model without any notice. Interestingly, it claimed that Qwen 2.5 can surpass all the existing Large Language Models, even the most renowned ones.
This is a huge claim, and tech enthusiasts are curious to see whether ChatGPT really gets a strong competitor.
Qwen 2.5 is the latest artificial intelligence model pre-trained with large-scale multilingual and multimodal data. Along with that, it is programmed in a way that it can adapt to human preferences as people keep using it for different purposes. This LLM model includes vision and audio processing, natural language understanding, text generation, chatbot role-play, and AI tool use.
From the very beginning, this AI model is claimed to be released as a direct competitor to DeepSeek V3 and ChatGPT. About this, Alibaba’s Cloud Unit officially mentioned, “Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms...almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B.”
ChatGPT and DeepSeek are already established LLMs that, despite some security issues, gained huge success since they were released. So, the competition is going to be tough.
Alibaba has chosen a very different time to launch its new AI model. It was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and almost all the Chinese people were off work at that point. Therefore, the sudden rise of this new AI model, without any prior hint, has surprised the tech world completely.
Now that this AI model is live and it's reportedly going to give the other two shining stars of the industry tough competition, people should know the characteristics of this new LLM version. To use this new AI model, one needs an active email ID to log in and a device with a web browser in it.
This latest model has more than 29 languages on its list, including English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, German, Thai, Spanish, and many others. This LLM consists of a complete decoder-based model ranging from 0.5 billion to 72 billion parameters, depending on base and instruct variants. Along with that, it can handle up to 128K tokens in context to allow users to generate improved long-form content and resolve complex reasoning.
This AI model is designed in a way to respond to human queries in a precise and contextually relevant way. Additionally, it will support role-playing and process, text, audio, and visual inputs while interacting with different tools.
With different types of prompts, this AI model will gradually become great at adaptability, and the improved model efficiency ensures that it provides users with faster responses.
The race for AI supremacy is getting intensified with new players joining the competition. While the battle of capturing the AI market was between ChatGPT and DeepSeek, with Alibaba’s new AI model joining the list, the scenario is getting more challenging as everyone’s trying to push their limit to gain the most popularity.
Now that Qwen 2.5 developers are confident about it replacing ChatGPT, the claim should be analyzed properly to find the basis of it. At this point, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is literally the bar set for other tech companies to follow. The most loved part of this LLM is its language model, which processes natural language to generate human-like responses.
Considering it from an industrial point of view, ChatGPT really looks easier to use, especially with its powerful GPT-4 model. It processes complicated tasks like reasoning, dialogue, and code comprehension in a simplified way that’s understandable for everyone.
It is certain that beating ChatGPT in capabilities is almost impossible for anyone. Still, there’s a gap that needs to be filled, and that’s the efficiency. OpenAI’s LLM lacks efficiency to some extent because of its development costs and resource consumption. Companies that use ChatGPT must rely on big operational costs.
This is the biggest loophole where Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 may enter the industry and become a great competitor to OpenAI’s most established model. Also, seeing it from a different point of view, the launch of Qwen 2.5 has opened up a new avenue for OpenAI to look through and improve its most dominant language model.
