Alibaba Shines in 2025 AI Index Report: Strong Performance in Large Language Models

The 2025 AI Index Report, released by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), offers insights into the global AIlandscape. Alibaba stands out as a leading Chinese tech firm in large languagemodels (LLMs), ranking third globally.

In 2024, China contributed 15 LLMs globally, with Alibaba accounting for 6.This trails Google and OpenAI’s 7, indicating a narrowing gap between Chinaand the US in AI. Alibaba’s ‘Tongyi Qianwen’ series is crucial to its success.

Alibaba’s models perform well in benchmark tests. The Qwen-2.5-72B, with a18-trillion-token training dataset—surpassing LLaMA-405B’s 15 trilliontokens—is the largest in data volume. This showcases Alibaba’s knowledgeacquisition and processing capabilities.

There’s a disparity in AI computing power demands between China and the US.While top US AI models need expensive resources, Alibaba’s models achiEVE goodperformance with lower computational needs, supporting its growth.

Alibaba is committed to AI investment. CEO Daniel Zhang announced a three-year, 380-billion-RMB investment in AI and cloud computing for foundationalmodel R&D; and application transformation. This strengthens itscompetitiveness and benefits the industry.

Alibaba’s rise in AI is due to its strong tech foundation, investmentstrategy, and innovation. As AI evolves, it will play a major role globally.