- Zelensky 'not ready' to sign minerals deal with US: source
- BNP’s goal is to establish government of the people: Mintoo
- Hamas hands over 6 hostages to Red Cross
- England makes highest team total as Duckett hits 151 in Champions Trophy
- EC suspends six employees over NID fraud
- CEC wants to hold elections like the Eid festival
- None can survive by means of corruption: Shafiqur Rahman
- AP sues three Trump administration officials
- Environmental protection will shape our future: Rizwana
- Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teenagers
- Disney’s 'Snow White' live-action remake drops motion poster
- Vietnam govt approves $8.36B railway project to China
- Creatinine levels: the silent indicator of kidney health
- No load shedding during Ramadan, summer, says energy advisor
- Robbery and molestation in bus: 3 arrested in Tangail
- Fakhrul urges democratic forces to build livable Bangladesh
- 'History will not forgive' failure to seal pandemic deal: WHO
- 85 Bangladeshis among 598 immigrants detained in Myanmar
- Hamas to free 6 Israeli hostages as Israel releases 600 Palestinians
- Apple disables encryption feature for UK users

Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek
Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Maxs release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work...

Alibaba's AI search engine reaches half million SME users
Alibaba International announced that its AI-powered B2B search engine, Accio, has surpassed 500,000 small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) users since its launch in November 2024. On Monday, the company stated that its leveraging natural language processing Accio enhances search capabilities to...

Alibaba unveils 'Open' competitor to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
A new reasoning AI model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has emerged as a competitor to OpenAIs o1, becoming one of the few to rival it. Developed by Alibabas Qwen team, QwQ-32B-Preview features 32.5 billion parameters and can process prompts of up to ~32,000 words. It outperforms OpenAIs o1-preview and o1-mini...