Alibaba Group unveils new AI chip Zhenwu V900, plans to train new AI model
Alibaba Group has unveiled its new Zhenwu V900 AI chip and announced plans to develop a massive AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters. Despite a recent drop in quarterly net profit, the company is seeing significant growth in its AI-related product revenue.
Why it matters
Alibaba's advancements in AI hardware and software underscore the intensifying global competition in AI development, particularly between Chinese firms and US-led technology standards.
The Alibaba Group unveiled its new Zhenwu V900 AI chip this week, pitching it as China’s most powerful, and promising tripled performance when compared to its predecessor.
The Chinese e-commerce and internet giant also committed to training a new AI model with between 5 and 10 trillion parameters, apart from growing its global data centre capacity.
The new Zhenwu V900 AI chip comes from the company’s T-Head semiconductor unit.
The unveiling comes at a time when U.S. technologists are clashing over AI safety standards, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calling for tech restrictions against China to prevent AI distillation. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has pushed for the ability to compete in the Asian country’s market against Chinese chip rivals.
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