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In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] schizoidman@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Here is the link to the demo

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/QwQ-32B-preview

Its fascinating to see a LLM answer a query while showing you the steps taken.

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In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into. (lemm.ee)

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cross-posted from: https://futurology.today/post/2910566

Alibaba's Qwen team just released QwQ-32B-Preview, a powerful new open-source AI reasoning model that can reason step-by-step through challenging problems and directly competes with OpenAI's o1 series across benchmarks.

The details:

QwQ features a 32K context window, outperforming o1-mini and competing with o1-preview on key math and reasoning benchmarks.

The model was tested across several of the most challenging math and programming benchmarks, showing major advances in deep reasoning.

QwQ demonstrates ‘deep introspection,’ talking through problems step-by-step and questioning and examining its own answers to reason to a solution.

The Qwen team noted several issues in the Preview model, including getting stuck in reasoning loops, struggling with common sense, and language mixing.

Why it matters: Between QwQ and DeepSeek, open-source reasoning models are here — and Chinese firms are absolutely cooking with new models that nearly match the current top closed leaders. Has OpenAI’s moat dried up, or does the AI leader have something special up its sleeve before the end of the year?

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In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://futurology.today/post/2910566

Alibaba's Qwen team just released QwQ-32B-Preview, a powerful new open-source AI reasoning model that can reason step-by-step through challenging problems and directly competes with OpenAI's o1 series across benchmarks.

The details:

QwQ features a 32K context window, outperforming o1-mini and competing with o1-preview on key math and reasoning benchmarks.

The model was tested across several of the most challenging math and programming benchmarks, showing major advances in deep reasoning.

QwQ demonstrates ‘deep introspection,’ talking through problems step-by-step and questioning and examining its own answers to reason to a solution.

The Qwen team noted several issues in the Preview model, including getting stuck in reasoning loops, struggling with common sense, and language mixing.

Why it matters: Between QwQ and DeepSeek, open-source reasoning models are here — and Chinese firms are absolutely cooking with new models that nearly match the current top closed leaders. Has OpenAI’s moat dried up, or does the AI leader have something special up its sleeve before the end of the year?