The Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba announced on Thursday (6) the launch of an artificial intelligence reasoning model that, according to the company, is on an equal footing with ChatgPT and offers as low training costs as DeepSek’s solution. Investors got excited, and the company’s shares shoot more than 8% in Hong Kong.
In a publication on social network X, Alibaba AI unit said its qwq-32b model, with 32 billion parameters, can perform a comparable performance to Deepseek R1 model, which has 671 billion parameters.
QWQ-32B has shown mathematical reasoning, coding, and solving benchmark’s coding, coding and solving skills, with performance close to the main models, such as Openii Mini and Deepseek R1, Alibaba told.
While the world runs to adopt AI models, the Chinese government promised on Wednesday to increase support for sectors such as Artificial Intelligence, humanoid robots and 6G telecommunications.
Alibaba said its new model is accessible through its chatbot, Qwen Chat, for which users can choose multiple models, including Qwen2.5-max, the most powerful language model in the Qwen series.
Deepseek effect
DeepSeek emerged as the Popropaganda Girl from China’s AI prowess earlier this year, rivaling OpenAi’s major models for a small fraction of its cost and using less powerful computing features.
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Another AI release that attracted a lot of attention on Thursday was the launch of an AI agent called Manus by Chinese startup Monica, who said he surpassed the Deep Research of OpenAi, creator of ChatgPT, in a benchmark for AI assistants.
An AI agent is a more advanced version of a chatbot and, according to the use cases listed on its site, Manus can help users make a travel plan to Japan or perform a comparative insurance policy analysis.
For now, AI agent is only for guests. A video released by Chinese startup at X on Wednesday night, demonstrating how it works, received over 280,000 views until Thursday, with many users asking for invitations to access it.
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(With information from Reuters and China Morning Post)
