<p>  Major Chinese tech company Alibaba claims that the latest version of this Qwen AI model has beaten out DeepSeek's V3, the model that flipped Silicon Valley on its head earlier this week. In a statement posted to the Chinese social media platform WeChat, Alibaba said that its Qwen 2.5-Max "demonstrated world-leading model performance in mainstream authoritative benchmarks" and "comprehensively surpasses" OpenAI's GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Meta's Llama 3.1. If confirmed, the announcement could mark yet another escalation in the race to develop higher performance and more cost efficient AI models among Chinese competitors, which have thrown Western […]</p>