On Thursday, Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) launched a new reasoning model comparable to that of its affordable rival DeepSeek’s R1, Reuters reports.
Alibaba Qwen artificial intelligence unit tweeted that its QwQ-32B, with 32 billion parameters, can achieve performance comparable to DeepSeek’s R1 model.
On Wednesday, China pledged increased support for industries including AI, humanoid robots, and 6G telecom, as AI models noted growing adoption by government agencies and smaller companies in China.
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