{"id":90855,"date":"2025-10-22T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/90855\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:52:11","slug":"airbnb-picks-alibabas-qwen-over-chatgpt-in-a-win-for-chinese-open-source-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/90855\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb picks Alibaba\u2019s Qwen over ChatGPT in a win for Chinese open-source AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/alibaba?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alibaba Group Holding<\/a>\u2019s Qwen AI models are winning over major Western firms like Airbnb, underscoring the growing global appeal of China\u2019s open-source approach to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based online accommodation booking giant, said Airbnb \u201crelies heavily\u201d on Alibaba\u2019s Qwen models to power its AI-driven customer service agent, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chesky, a friend of OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, said ChatGPT\u2019s integration abilities were not \u201cquite ready\u201d for Airbnb\u2019s needs. In contrast, Alibaba\u2019s Qwen model was \u201cvery good\u201d and \u201calso fast and cheap\u201d, he said. Alibaba owns the Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While Airbnb uses 13 different AI models \u2013 including those from OpenAI and Google \u2013 to develop its service bot, Chesky\u2019s comments highlighted how open-source models, which developers can modify to fit specific needs, were increasingly challenging closed-source incumbents like those from OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alibaba\u2019s Qwen is the world\u2019s largest open-source AI system. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9323a14f-a451-4750-b16f-5f8b4b66c71e_6114a0af.jpg\" title=\"Alibaba\u2019s Qwen is the world\u2019s largest open-source AI system. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Alibaba\u2019s Qwen is the world\u2019s largest open-source AI system. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese tech companies, from Alibaba to DeepSeek, are rapidly releasing advanced, cost-effective open-source AI systems. Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai recently said the winner in AI should be determined by \u201cwho can adopt it faster\u201d, not \u201cwho comes up with the strongest AI model\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s Qwen AI models are winning over major Western firms like Airbnb, underscoring the growing global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,17108,2948,2939,33987,343,344,61390,61392,4193,1657,61393,2943,133,85,46,61389,61391,1748,8166,4674,125,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-90855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-airbnb","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","12":"tag-apsara-conference","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-artificialintelligence","15":"tag-botbot-robotics","16":"tag-brian-chesky","17":"tag-chatgpt","18":"tag-china","19":"tag-chinese-tech-companies","20":"tag-deepseek","21":"tag-google","22":"tag-il","23":"tag-israel","24":"tag-joe-tsai","25":"tag-nicolas-de-cameret","26":"tag-openai","27":"tag-qwen","28":"tag-san-francisco","29":"tag-technology","30":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}