Alibaba’s tiny AI model QwQ-32B is a big threat to Silicon Valley’s AI profits. Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen Team has released its open-source QwQ-32B AI model, which is small enough to run on consumer-grade hardware. The Chinese company claims it outperforms the 20 times larger DeepSeek R1 or OpenAI’s o1-mini across some critical benchmarks.

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