Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday unveiled a suite of new artificial intelligence models, including a multimodal system rivalling OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s popular “Nano Banana” image editor, intensifying both domestic and international competition in the field. Chief among the new releases was Qwen3-Omni, a flagship multimodal model akin to OpenAI’s GPT-4o launched in May 2024. The Alibaba model is designed to process a combination of text, audio, image and video inputs and respond with text...