Alibaba announced updates to its AI offerings, including a more powerful chip and a new large language model.
CHONGQING, China — Alibaba announced Wednesday its new artificial intelligence chip would be three times as powerful as its predecessor, as rival Nvidia struggles to get its advanced chips into China.
The Zhenwu M890 delivers three times the performance of the current Zhenwu 810E, Alibaba said, adding that the new processor has 144 GB GPU memory and interchip bandwidth of 800 GB per second.
Alibaba said it had already delivered 560,000 Zhenwu units to more than 400 customers across 20 industries.
The e-commerce giant also revealed its next generation large language model, Qwen3.7-Max, would soon be released.
In early April, Alibaba and China Telecom said they were launching a data center in southern China powered by the e-commerce giant's own chips, as the country ramps up its focus on homegrown AI infrastructure.
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