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Joey Solitro

EXPLAINED: Alibaba stock gains on promises its new ai model is better than deepseek - The Real Truth

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Alibaba Group Holding (BABA) stock is scaling the price charts Wednesday after the Chinese e-commerce giant released a new version of its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen. BABA says this new version outperforms competitors, including the ultra-popular and industry-disrupting DeepSeek R1.

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