‘Better than DeepSeek and OpenAI’: Alibaba touts open-source AI model that beats rivals

‘Better than DeepSeek and OpenAI’: Alibaba touts open-source AI model that beats rivals

[South China Morning Post] - 03/6/2025

Alibaba says its QwQ-32B AI model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 in coding and problem solving while using fewer resources.



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