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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) Unveils QVQ-72B-Preview AI Model for Visual Reasoning, Advancing Problem-Solving Capabilities

We recently compiled a list of the 10 AI News Investors Shouldn’t MissIn this article, we are going to take a look at where Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) stands against the other AI stocks.

Famously known as the “godfather of artificial intelligence”, British-Canadian computer scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton has recently warned that the pace of technological change today is much faster than was initially anticipated. As a result, there is a 10% to 20% chance that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity within the next three decades. Previously, he had said there was only a 10% chance of technology doing so.

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Despite such warnings, companies are racing to lead the AI arms race. OpenAI, for instance, which is also known as the company that started the race itself, has recently outlined plans to revamp its structure. The company said that it would create a public benefit corporation so that it would make it easier to raise more capital.

Reuters reported the news back in September, which had sparked debate among corporate watchdogs and tech moguls regarding whether the company would be able to allocate its assets to the nonprofit arm fairly, and whether the company would be able to strike a balance between making a profit and breeding public good as it develops AI.

“We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined. Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness. The hundreds of billions of dollars that major companies are now investing into AI development show what it will really take for OpenAI to continue pursuing the mission”.

-OpenAI

The company plans to turn its for-profit branch into a Delaware public benefit corporation (PBC), aligning its structure with rivals such as Anthropic and Musk’s xAI, which use a similar structure and have recently raised billions in funding.

“The key to the announcement is that the for-profit side of OpenAI ‘will run and control OpenAI’s operations and business. This is the critical step the company needs to make in order to continue fund raising,” Luria said, although he added that the move did “not necessitate OpenAI going public”.

-DA Davidson & Co analyst Gil Luria.

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 115

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) is an online retailer that leverages AI in its e-commerce business. On December 26, Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China Alibaba Group Ltd., announced that it has launched QVQ-72B-Preview. The QVQ-72B-Preview is an experimental AI model that can perform actions such as reviewing images and drawing conclusions. Marking a significant advancement in AI’s visual understanding and problem-solving capabilities, the company said that this model is displaying promising capabilities at visual reasoning by solving problems. It is doing so by thinking them through step by step similar to other reasoning models such as OpenAI’s o1 and Google LLC’s Gemini Flash.

“Imagine an AI that can look at a complex physics problem, and methodically reason its way to a solution with the confidence of a master physicist”.

-Qwen Team

Overall BABA ranks 3rd on our list of the AI stocks investors shouldn’t miss. While we acknowledge the potential of BABA as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than BABA but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.

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When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard.

Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences.

At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000.

Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040.

Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:

  • 175 Teslas
  • 107 Amazons
  • 140 Metas
  • 84 Googles
  • 65 Microsofts
  • And 55 Nvidias

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Even if that $250 trillion figure sounds ambitious, major firms like PwC and McKinsey still see AI unlocking multi-trillion-dollar potential.

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  • Bill Gates sees artificial intelligence as the “biggest technological advance in my lifetime,” more transformative than the internet or personal computer, capable of improving healthcare, education, and addressing climate change.
  • Larry Ellison — through Oracle, is spending billions on Nvidia chips and partnering with Cohere to embed generative AI across Oracle’s cloud and apps.
  • Warren Buffett — not known for tech hype — says this breakthrough could have a ‘hugely beneficial social impact.

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