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Alibaba unveils chip scaling to 500,000 cards per cluster
Livemint··4d ago
Alibaba Group on Tuesday launched the Zhenwu V900 AI chip, calling it China's most powerful. CEO Eddie Wu unveiled it at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou. The firm said the chip can scale to 500,000 cards per cluster. Alibaba plans more than 20 gigawatts of data centre capacity by 2032. Wu put machine intelligence under 3 percent of human capacity.
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What It Means For You
- Alibaba is pouring investment into AI models, chips and cloud infrastructure for larger workloads.
- A stated 2032 target of more than 20 GW of Alibaba Cloud capacity signals a long build-out of data centres.
- The company also launched Qwen Intelligence, an end-to-end tool for complex tasks on mobile devices.
What's Happening
- Wu said Alibaba will develop Qwen models with 5 to 10 trillion parameters.
- He outlined a Machine Intelligence roadmap in which machine thinking could eventually carry most workload.
- The chip launch was presented with an official release at the annual Apsara Conference 2026.
What Wu Emphasised
- Wu said machines are becoming a larger force behind thinking as AI scales.
- He argued human thinking will keep growing while machine thinking expands faster.
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