Alibaba urgently launched the upgraded AI model Qwen 2.5-Max during the Spring Festival to address rapidly changing industry competition. The company claims that this model "almost completely surpasses" ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Meta's Llama in performance. According to Alibaba's testing, Qwen 2.5-Max achieved a high score of 89.4 on the Arena-Hard benchmark and outperformed DeepSeek in the MMLU-Pro university-level problem-solving ability test, being comparable to ChatGPT. Alibaba's developers noted on GitHub that the new model is expected to surpass human intelligence and explore unknown territories. Former U.S. President Donald Trump stated that the strong performance of Chinese AI models should serve as a "wake-up call" for Silicon Valley, but he also believes the rise of DeepSeek presents an opportunity to reduce costs.