Alibaba Cloud's Growth Accelerates With AI, Analyst Weighs DeepSeek's Rising Competition
1. Goldman Sachs maintains a Buy rating on Alibaba with a $117 price target. 2. Alibaba's Qwen2.5 models are gaining traction on Huggingface's Open LLM Leaderboard. 3. Analyst expects Alibaba's Cloud revenue growth to accel at 10% in Dec 2024. 4. Competition in China's AI space is increasing amid geopolitical uncertainties. 5. Alibaba's stock has outperformed the sector since the launch of Qwen2.5.