Alibaba heats up the open-source AI race by unveiling Qwen-1.8, a direct competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini. This new large language model (LLM) boasts enhanced reasoning capabilities and an expanded context window, challenging the dominance of closed-source models in complex problem-solving. Qwen-1.8’s standout feature is its massive 140,000-token context window, significantly surpassing the…