Alibaba Says Its AI Model Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

THE JANUARY 10 release of DeepSeek's AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, as well as the January 20 release of its R1 model, has shocked Silicon Valley and caused tech shares to plunge, with the Chinese startup's purportedly low development and usage costs prompting investors to question huge spending plans by leading AI firms in the US. But DeepSeek's success has also led to a scramble among its domestic competitors to upgrade their own AI models.

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Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, ByteDance released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed OpenAI's in AIME, which is a benchmark test that measures how well AI models respond to