A recent report from Nikkei, a prominent Japanese financial news outlet, underscores Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen large model as a vital cornerstone for AI development in Japan. In Nikkei's comprehensive rankings, Tongyi Qianwen's Qwen2.5-Max model secured the sixth position, outperforming esteemed domestic and international models such as DeepSeek-V3 and OpenAI's GPT-3-mini. The report emphasizes that numerous burgeoning Japanese enterprises are leveraging Tongyi Qianwen to develop their own large-scale AI models. Alibaba's Tongyi has thus far open-sourced over 200 models, with global downloads surpassing 300 million and the number of derivative models exceeding 100,000, solidifying its leading position in global open-source model rankings.
