As May draws near, a new peak in the rivalry between Chinese and American tech giants appears imminent. In mid-April, OpenAI unveiled the GPT-4.1, including the o3 and o4 mini series models, while Google released the Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview, a hybrid inference model. On the same day, Doubao showcased its 1.5·Deep Thinking Model at its exhibition in Hangzhou, exhibiting robust capabilities in the multimodal domain. According to Ifeng Technology, Alibaba is poised to launch its next-generation large model, Qwen3, this month as well.
