Alibaba says the latest version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model can take on fellow Chinese firm DeepSeek's V3 as well as the top models from U.S. rivals OpenAI and Meta.

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The Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ADR BABA rallied 6.71% to $96.03 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP rising 2.03% to 19,733.59 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.31% to 44,850.35.

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Shares of Alibaba Group Holding ( BABA 1.56%) were flying higher on Wednesday. The company's stock gained 1.9% as of 1:50 p.m. ET, but rose as much as 5.5% earlier in the day. The move up comes as the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC -0.76%) and Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC -0.84%) lost 0.6% and 0.9%, respectively.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) released a new version Wednesday of its Qwen large language model, known as Qwen2.5 Max, which it said topped DeepSeek's AI model across various benchmarks.

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The launch follows Chinese startup DeepSeek's recent release of models that stunned Silicon Valley and challenged assumptions about US dominance in the booming AI sector.