ByteDance released Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model, which it claims outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME.

TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.

Meta and other AI competitors are facing challenges from China's DeepSeek as its new AI model outperforms competitors at lower costs.

Founded just 20 months ago in Alibaba’s home city of Hangzhou, DeepSeek has upended the industry with its low-cost, high-performance AI models. The pressure is now on established players like Alibaba,

DeepSeek, now with models that rival the best of the West, has set the stage for a global war in AI inference pricing that is only now becoming clear to the world.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba released a new AI model, Qwen 2.5, coinciding with the Lunar New Year. This launch, driven by competition with DeepSeek's s

Alibaba unveils Qwen 2.5 AI model, claiming it outperforms GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 as China’s AI race intensifies.

“Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” Alibaba’s cloud division reportedly announced via WeChat, comparing its model to those from OpenAI and Meta.

Perplexity AI made changes to its merger proposal with ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, on Sunday.  TakeAway Points: Perplexity AI revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance.

TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.

China seeks AI dominance, making significant investments and implementing safety and ethics regulations. Leading AI models include Alibaba's Qwen, Baidu's Ernie Bot, and ByteDance's Doubao.