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As we pointed out with DeepSeek, user data collected by its online services will be storied in China, per its privacy policy. It's a similar story with Alibaba's Qwen Chat, which may store data in either its Singapore or Chinese datacenters.

TikTok restored US services after Donald Trump pledged to delay enforcement of a ban. Yet it’s not clear whether the app’s Chinese parent is able — or willing — to secure a US backer in time to avoid a permanent shutdown.

Those who have had professional dealings with DeepSeek say he is obsessed with human-like artificial general intelligence ( AGI) and the impact it could have on the world. In his pursuit of it, DeepSeek’s founder is upending ideas about technological progress both in the West and China.

Alibaba Group Holding released on Wednesday an upgraded version of its Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model, which it said "comprehensively outperformed" in certain benchmark tests DeepSeek-V3, the large language model (LLM) launched in December by China's hottest start-up.

Alibaba's new language model Qwen 2.5 Max is set to revolutionize the industry and boost the company's cloud business, amid competitive pressures. See more here.

Italy's data protection authority on Thursday blocked access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users' data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot. The authority,

On 12 January, two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, released an update to its flagship AI model, claiming to have passed OpenAI's o1 version (backed by Microsoft) in AIME, a benchmark test that measures the ability of AI models to understand and respond to complex instructions.

There’s been an escalation in the generative AI large language model “wars” as Alibaba Qwen 2.5 launched Wednesday. This latest AI salvo from China-based Alibaba is directly aimed at its in-country rival DeepSeek, which launched its own AI--DeepSeek-V3--in December 2024 and its R1 version in mid-January.

AI’s next frontier is not just about larger models but smarter, more interpretable, and ethically aligned ones