Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the top computer science award.

Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and OpenAI’s o1, with only 32 billion parameters.

The latest model from the Chinese public cloud provider shows how reinforced learning is driving AI efficiency

Current research combined with industry development demonstrates that AI safety requires a complex approach that includes explanation methods alongside secure training procedures, adversarial validation and steady performance monitoring.