The Alibaba office building in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on Aug. 28, 2024.CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesAlibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest artificial intelligence model in its "Qwen series," as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the "DeepSeek moment."The new "Qwen2.5-Omni-7B" is a multimodal model, which means it can process inputs, including text, images, audio and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech response...