Alibaba Unveils Powerful AI Chip as Meta Revives AI Optimism
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China's Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies and ambitious plans for more powerful AI models on Tuesday, ahead of a high-stakes meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders. The company announced what it claimed was the most powerful AI chip in the country, the Zhenwu V900, which boasts three times the performance of its previous generation Zhenwu M890 chip.
Alibaba's CEO, Eddie Wu, described the Zhenwu V900 as "the most powerful AI chip in China today" and said it can deliver three times the performance of the previous Zhenwu M890 chip. These powerful chips play a crucial role in training and inference for frontier AI models. Alibaba also announced plans to train a new AI model of unprecedented scale, with an estimated 5-10 trillion parameters, compared to its current Qwen3.8-Max model, which has 2.4 trillion parameters.
Chinese AI company Moonshot reported the release of its Kimi K3 model in July, which is currently the world's largest open model with 2.8 trillion parameters. Alibaba's expansion plans include increasing its data center computing capacity to over 20 gigawatts by 2032, a figure that highlights the growing demand for AI computing resources.
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