Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed stock surged 8.39 percent to a 52-week high following the announcement of its AI reasoning model—QwQ-32B. The company stated that the model competes with DeepSeek’s R1. The new model has greater efficiency,

Hong-Kong listed shares (HK:9988) jumped over 8% today, after the company launched its new open-source AI (artificial intelligence) model, which challenges DeepSeek’s R1 model. Alibaba’s AI unit, Qwen,

The model operates with 32 billion parameters compared to DeepSeek's 671 billion, with only 37 billion actively engaged during inference, a design aimed at achieving higher efficiency amid rising demand for optimized AI performance.

This remarkable outcome underscores the effectiveness of RL when applied to robust foundation models pre-trained on extensive world knowledge.'

Alibaba surged 7% on Thursday after it made one of its AI models public, signaling how the party isn't over for Chinese tech stocks.

Alibaba touted its new model, QwQ-32B, in an online statement as delivering “exceptional performance, almost entirely surpassing OpenAI-o1-mini and rivaling the strongest open-source reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1.” OpenAI-o1-mini is the American company’s cost-efficient reasoning model released last year.

Alibaba shares were rising after the Chinese firm said the latest version of its Qwen AI was comparable with DeepSeek’s R1 that shocked the world in January.

While DeepSeek-R1 operates with 671 billion parameters, QwQ-32B achieves comparable performance with a much smaller footprint.