cross-posted from: https://futurology.today/post/2910566

Alibaba’s Qwen team just released QwQ-32B-Preview, a powerful new open-source AI reasoning model that can reason step-by-step through challenging problems and directly competes with OpenAI’s o1 series across benchmarks.

The details:

QwQ features a 32K context window, outperforming o1-mini and competing with o1-preview on key math and reasoning benchmarks.

The model was tested across several of the most challenging math and programming benchmarks, showing major advances in deep reasoning.

QwQ demonstrates ‘deep introspection,’ talking through problems step-by-step and questioning and examining its own answers to reason to a solution.

The Qwen team noted several issues in the Preview model, including getting stuck in reasoning loops, struggling with common sense, and language mixing.

Why it matters: Between QwQ and DeepSeek, open-source reasoning models are here — and Chinese firms are absolutely cooking with new models that nearly match the current top closed leaders. Has OpenAI’s moat dried up, or does the AI leader have something special up its sleeve before the end of the year?

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I checked their terms of use and they didn’t say anything about sexual material (unless it involves children, which this doesn’t).

    I even asked ChatGPT if it was okay, and it said yes, but it still wouldn’t do it.

    I guess AI really won’t ever be able to replace human artists if it isn’t even allowed to write smut, even comedically.