Artificial intelligence continues to accelerate, with a new push from research workshops and Chinese companies. Sudden ascent of Deep -weekA born startup founded just a year ago by the 40 -year -old entrepreneur Liang WenfengThe giant Tech Alibaba responded with a new artificial intelligence model: QWen 2.5-Max.

Both Deepseek and Alibaba share the origins. Their general quarter are located in Hangzhou, south-east of China. Both have opened two very powerful chatbots to the public: both Deepseek and Qwen can be used for free on the web (Here you can test qwen). Only you need to register by choosing an email and a password, or by accessing With a Google account.

These two IAs, moreover, they are open source: It means that their code can be inspected, modifiable and improved by anyone.

The big difference between Deepseek and Qwen, for now, is that The Iialibaba and Multimodale: It also accepts images such as Input, for example, and can produce realistic photos and videos.

Artificial intelligence

Deepseek, the reactions of Silicon Valley: “Ire impressive”. But there are those who raise doubts

by Pier Luigi Pisa

January 28, 2025

QWen 2.5-Max is the most updated and powerful version of Alibaba’s artificial intelligence. It was announced todayWith lots of graphs that illustrate how the new model – according to the benchmark indicated by Alibaba – is able to overcome the performance of Deepseek V3 and to compete almost on par with other popular artificial intelligence such as GPT-4O by Openai and Llama 3.1 of Gobieri.

In the field of artificial intelligence, especially when they deal politically sensitive topicsThe theme of censorship is crucial.

Deepseek’s recent success has been accompanied, for example, by the criticisms for the way this obscure chatbot – in real time – users’ questions about events such as The protests of Piazza Tiananmen of 1989 or the manifestations of Hong Kong of 2019.

A study conducted by Request he highlighted, for example, how Deepseek censored 1,156 questions concerning uncomfortable topics to the Chinese government.

As he could see also Italian techniqueThe chatbot initially generates an answer but then cancel it immediatelyBy replacing it with messages such as: “I’m sorry, this topic beyond my area of ​​competence. Let’s talk about something else”.

On the contrary, Alibaba’s qwen 2.5-Max seems to manage these topics differently. In our tests, Alibaba’s chabtot answered questions about the events in Piazza Tiananmen without restrictionsReferring to his answers even to the “rigorous censorship imposed by the Chinese government on these events“.

The use of Chinese IAs such as Deepseek and Qwen places a serious reflection regarding the privacy and security of user data. Text input or audio, loaded files, feedback and chat history come in fact archived on servers located in the People’s Republic of China.

There are fears regarding the possibility that the data stored by the IAs may be shared with the Chinese governmentin line with the laws of the country on computer security that oblige companies to provide data to the authorities on request.

Founded in 1999 by Jack but, Alibaba was born as a B2B marketplace to connect Chinese producers with international buyers.

Over the years, the company has expanded its offer with the launch of Taobaoa consumer -oriented platform, e AlipayA digital payment system that has revolutionized the Chinese financial market.

Over the past ten years Alibaba has extended its activities to Cloud computingartificial intelligence and logistics, becoming a global technological giant.

Jack but, born in 1964 in Hangzhou, is one of the most charismatic and influential entrepreneurs in China.

After starting his career as English teacherHe founded Alibaba with the aim of making the Internet a growth tool for small Chinese businesses.

Jack but left the company’s helm at the beginning of 2023. Eddie WuThe current CEO of the multinational is focusing decisively on the AI ​​and cloud computing.

The rapid development of Chinese IA models is intensifying the competition with the United States. The results obtained from Deepseek as part of the artificial intelligence training, in particular, have conditioned the financial markets.

Because of the Chinese startup, the giant Nvidia which produces specific chips for the IA has lost 17% of its value in a single day on the bag.

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Because the launch of one to the Chinese made 10% of its value lose to Nvidia

by Arcangelo Rociola

January 27, 2025

In a recent interview, the president Donald Trump He described Deepsek’s ascent as an “alarm bell” for American companies and reiterated the need for greater investments in the AI ​​so as not to lose the competitive advantage.

Trump recently supported a huge technological investment by Openi, Oracle and SoftBankthat in the next few years 500 billion dollars will spend in infrastructure for artificial intelligence.