Alibaba says the latest version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model can take on fellow Chinese firm DeepSeek's V3 as well as the top models from U.S. rivals OpenAI and Meta.

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

AI can now breed Boffins at Fudan University has created large language models (LLMs) which can replicate themselves autonomously during trials. The research showed that the LLMs developed by Meta and Alibaba exceeded expectations,