Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) is inching up this morning as investors continue to hail its launch of a new AI model that it claims is more powerful than OpenAI as well as DeepSeek. The artificial intelligence assistant the company is calling Qwen 2.

Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) shares are trading higher Thursday as the company's latest artificial intelligence model, Qwen 2.5, gained traction.

Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok owner ByteDance released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions.