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Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free
Alibaba's new AI coding assistant, Qwen2.5-Coder, challenges GPT-4o with state-of-the-art code generation, offering free and open-source AI tools to developers worldwide despite U.S. chip restrictions.
Enterprise customers who currently pay hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for AI coding assistance could soon have access to comparable capabilities at a fraction of the cost. Alibaba’s success suggests Chinese tech companies have found ways to innovate despite these constraints, possibly reshaping the global AI competitive landscape. While American companies have traditionally led in large language models, Chinese firms are increasingly matching or exceeding their capabilities in specialized domains like coding and mathematics.
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