Alibaba Cloud Delists DeepSeek V3 and R1 Models on July 9 — Recommends Switching to Qwen 3.7

What happened

Alibaba Cloud on July 9 ends availability of multiple DeepSeek models on its Model Studio platform, including V3, V3.1, V3.2 (exp.), R1, R1-0528, and R1-distill variants.

Context and impact

This move comes alongside Alibaba's July 10 ban on Claude Code and signals growing tension between Chinese AI firms. Alibaba redirects users to its own Qwen3 family, strengthening its position ahead of the expected mid-July DeepSeek V4 release.

Details

• Delisted: deepseek-v3, deepseek-v3.1, deepseek-v3.2, deepseek-v3.2-exp, deepseek-r1, deepseek-r1-0528, deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b/14b/32b
• Recommended replacement: qwen3.7-max, qwen3.7-plus, qwen3.6-flash
• Qwen3.7 Max leads BenchLM Chinese model ranking (score 84)
• DeepSeek V4 expected mid-July with custom inference chip