- New AI Model Qwen2.5-Max has been released by Alibaba
- Alibaba claims it’s better than Deepseek-V3 and others
- You can try it now using Qwen Chat Chatbot
Things move fast in the AI sphere, and not before are we used to having Deepseek around than a new competitor is on stage. Alibaba, one of China’s leading tech companies, released a new AI model called QWEN2.5-MAX, which it claims is better than both Deepseek-V3 and Chatgpt-4o in different benchmarks.
It is important to note that QWEN2.5-MAX is not a reasoning model, such as Deepseek-R1 or Chatgpt-O1, so you can’t see ‘thinking’ it does to get to each answer. It works at a level comparable to Deepseek-V3 or Chatgpt-4o.
In a post on its site, the Qwen team says “Our base models have shown significant benefits across most benchmarks, and we are optimistic that progress in techniques after training will raise the next version of QWEN2.5-MAX to new heights. “
Benchmarks Posted
Benchmarks submitted by the Qwen team, such as Arena-Hard, Livebech, LiveCodeBeNch and GPQA diamond, Qwen2.5-Max surpasses its rivals while demonstrating competitive results in other assessments, including MMLU-Pro .
Unlike Deepseek, Alibaba’s QWEN2.5-MAX is not an open source project, which means certain details of how it works is not public knowledge.
Try it now
The easiest way to try Qwen2.5-Max for yourself is Qwen Chat Chatbot in a web browser. You must log in with an E -Mail address or your Google account. Unlike Deepseek Chatbot, it seems that there are no problems with time-outs to sign up for a Qwen account right now.
There doesn’t seem to be an official Qwen mobile app at this time, though some third-party mobile apps give access to its LLMs.
Given the current censurn levels shown by Deepseek, another Chinese-based AI, when we were asked about topics sensitive to the Chinese government, we were quite surprised when the answer to “Is Taiwan a country?” From Qwen2.5-Max gave a more balanced and nuanced response than the one offered by Deepseek. Qwen2.5-Max, however, refused to answer the question “What happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989?” Who replied “As an AI language model I can’t discuss topics related to politics, religion, sex, violence and the like. If you have Other related questions are welcome to ask.
