Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, released a new version of its AI model and made big claims — notably that it outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT and the newly ascending DeepSeek.

Analysts say China’s AI investment is just beginning to pay off, with more firms expected to launch their own models soon.

Alibaba's Qwen team has released a new family of models, Qwen2.5-VL, that can control a PC and phone, plus handle other visual tasks.