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Alibaba and DeepSeek launch new AI models, intensifying China's race for cost-efficiency

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Alibaba has released its largest AI model to date, Qwen3.8-Max, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters and a mixture-of-experts architecture that activates approximately 95 billion parameters per request. Concurrently, DeepSeek's V4-Flash model is gaining attention for its significantly lower inference pricing compared to competitors. Qwen3.8-Max supports multimodal inputs and a one-million-token context window, positioning it competitively against Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, with both companies vying on cost and scale. DeepSeek's V4-Flash, while smaller in total parameters, offers substantially reduced per-token costs, making it a cost-effective option for various AI tasks. AI

IMPACT Intensifies competition in the AI model market, driving innovation in efficiency and cost reduction for large-scale models.

RANK_REASON New model release from a major AI lab (Alibaba) with significant parameter count and new features. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba and DeepSeek launch new AI models, intensifying China's race for cost-efficiency

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  1. Artificial Intelligence News TIER_1 English(EN) · Muhammad Zulhusni ·

    Alibaba, DeepSeek push China’s AI model race towards lower costs

    <p>Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, as DeepSeek’s latest V4-Flash model draws attention for inference pricing that is lower than several competing systems. Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters and uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, which act…

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