the excellence of Llama 4 in reasoning and coding tasks. This information positions it as a formidable competitor in the AI world. However, serving the same function, DeepSeek’s R1 provides more or less the same output but at a much smaller cost, suggesting cheap yet effective methods of Chinese AI development approaches.
Despite the limited access to the benchmark data from Qwen, it seems likely that Alibaba’s great technical infrastructure and financial investments in AI will rival solutions developed by the West. The gap in performance between US and Chinese models in Artificial Intelligence is narrowing.
