DeepSeek-R1 vs Qwen 2.5 Max

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeek-AI) against Qwen 2.5 Max (Alibaba Cloud).

DeepSeek-R1

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Olympiad mathematics, logic verification, and autonomous thinking chains.

Qwen 2.5 Max

Developed by Alibaba Cloud · Proprietary (~700B) parameters

Cross-lingual document extraction and structured structured output generation.