Alibaba Group Holding's Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model is powering the world's top 10 open-source large language models (LLMs), according to collaborative machine-learning platform and community Hugging Face.

Researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington, including Chinese-American “AI godmother” Li Feifei, have recently published their study regarding the training of the S1 reasoning model on the back of Alibaba's Qwen 2.

The unusual timing of the release points to the pressure Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on domestic competition.