Alibaba Group published benchmark scores and touted what it called world-leading performance with its new artificial intelligence model release. The upgraded Qwen 2.5 Max edition scored better than Meta’s Llama and DeepSeek’s V3 model in various tests, according to figures in Alibaba Cloud’s announcement on WeChat. DeepSeek, a 20-month-old startup that was founded in Alibaba’s home city, Hangzhou, became a global sensation this week and figures prominently as the first benchmark that Alibaba appears to now measure itself against. Alibaba Cloud also shared scores that suggest its AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s models in certain benchmarks. In Washington, Donald Trump is offering buyouts to agency employees who don’t want to comply with his demands that they return to the office as he looks to reshape the federal workforce in his second term.
Today’s guests: Ursula Marchioni, BlackRock; Veronique Fournier, Apollo Global Management; Jeff Currie, Carlyle Group Energy Pathways Chief Strategy Officer
Chapters:
00:00:00 – The Pulse with Francine Lacqua
00:00:57 – Microsoft probes DeepSeek-linked group
00:02:37 – AMSL orders beat estimates
00:03:43 – Ursula Marchioni, BlackRock
00:11:56 – Veronique Fournier, Apollo Global Management
00:18:15 – EU’s Albuquerque: Bigger banks will benefits all clients
00:19:48 – Headlines
00:21:04 – Judge blocks Trump’s grant funding freeze
00:25:29 – Jeff Currie, Carlyle Group Energy Pathways Chief Strategy Officer
00:38:48 – LVMH slips on cautions on demand
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