Capability gains

Alibaba deploys Qwen2.5-Max through chat and API

Alibaba released Qwen2.5-Max, a large mixture-of-experts model pretrained on more than 20 trillion tokens, through Qwen Chat and the Alibaba Cloud API.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM70confidence 95/100

Why it moved the index

A frontier-scale hosted MoE model with immediate chat and API access raises capability and competitive pressure. Benchmark claims are treated as supporting evidence, while the deployed access is the practical outcome.

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  1. R1
    Toward 70 · confidence 95

    New January 2025 exact hosted-model release with no durable model or story collision.

    12 Aug 2026