Alibaba is stepping up its AI activities with the release of new open-source models and text-to-video technology. The Chinese technology company has now unveiled over 100 new open source AI models from its Qwen 2.5 family, according to Reuters. The models cover a range of sizes and capabilities, including mathematics and programming. They support over 29 languages. In addition, Alibaba unveiled a new text-to-video model as part of its Tongyi Wanxiang image generation family. With these moves, Alibaba is intensifying competition in generative AI and positioning itself against global competitors such as OpenAI and Chinese companies such as Baidu and ByteDance.