Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Alibaba on Tuesday opened the QWEN3 series of models, which said deptseek rivals in some fronts, including math and coding. QWEN3 has significantly cut off expansion costs compared to other basic models, the company said.
The Qwen3 series includes two so -called Models of Halo-of-Experto (MOE) That is trying to match the hybrid reasoning systems – that mimics the way people think through problems – Google recently introduced Anthropic and Alphabet Inc. Deepseek and other developers also used the Moe method, which divides tasks into smaller data range, such as having a team of specialists who are each focused on a segment of a job, thus making the process better.
Since Deepseek raised Openai with a strong model it said it only took a few million dollars to build, China's tech leaders flooded the market with rapid successive AI services. Alibaba — who in 2025 expressed herself in the Ai race-along with a New model In the Qwen 2.5 series 2.5 a few weeks ago that could process text, photo, audio and video – and it was good enough to run directly on phones and laptops. It released a new version of its AI assistant Quark App in March.
Openai, Google and Anthropic have similarly released a fuzzy model in recent months. Openai recently said it also plans to release a more “open” model to mimic human reasoning in the coming months, a transfer of approach after Deepseek and Alibaba has pushed the open sources of AI systems. Alibaba said on Tuesday that all QWEN3 models are open resources.
Alibaba builds AI's efforts around Qwen. In February, Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wu said the company's “main goal” is now artificial general intelligence, a relatively objective goal in the industry to generate AI systems with intellectual levels of human level.
That shift has helped the company recover from the years of chaos after co-founder Jack Ma has fought with the country's Communist Party in private sector regulation. Ma, who became the highest leader of China's business, was largely lost from the public view over the next few years.
In February, Ma joined other prominent entrepreneurs at a high-profile meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to communicate through new technologies and innovations. The gathering signed Beijing's support for a long private sector that was considered the key to surviving the No. 2 world economies.
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