Alibaba’s effort to carve out a leading position in AI was accelerated by DeepSeek’s splashy debut in January.

Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) has released a new artificial intelligence model, R1-Omni, which is capable of recognizing human emotions through audio and visual cues. This represents a crucial step in achieving artificial general intelligence,

Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model ( LLM ), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1, with only 32 billion parameters.

Alibaba has unveiled a new open-source AI reasoning model, the QwQ-32B, which it claims outperforms DeepSeek's R1 and OpenAI 's o1-mini. Despite having just 32 billion parameters versus R1's 671 billion, QwQ-32B has demonstrated better performance in math, coding and general problem-solving.

Investing.com -- Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) Group Holding Ltd has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, R1-Omni, developed by its Tongyi Lab. The latest model has the capability to interpret emotions, marking a significant advancement in the field of computer vision.