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Alibaba Unveils Its Most Powerful AI Chip as a Domestic Nvidia Alternative
Alibaba said the new chip triples performance and the Qwen3.7-Max model can run autonomously for up to 35 hours.
- On Wednesday, Alibaba announced The Zhenwu M890, an artificial intelligence chip delivering three times the performance of its predecessor with 144 GB GPU memory and 800 GB per second interchip bandwidth.
- Speaking at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of Alibaba Cloud, framed AI as a new form of manufacturing through "training and inference factories."
- Alibaba also revealed the next generation large language model, Qwen3, designed for AI agents, which excels at "long-horizon tasks" and autonomously operates for 35 hours without performance degradation.
- Zhou Jingren, chief AI architect of the Alibaba Group Technology Committee, said the model outperformed all other AI models in China; Alibaba has delivered 560,000 Zhenwu units to over 400 customers.
- In early April, Alibaba and China Telecom launched a data center in southern China powered by homegrown chips, positioning the company against rival Nvidia as it struggles to supply advanced chips to China.
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Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens
Alibaba's T-Head chip unit has unveiled the Zhenwu M890, its highest-spec AI accelerator yet, and said the chip is now in 'scaled mass production' as China accelerates its domestic NVIDIA-alternative push.
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technewstube.comAlibaba's T-Head doubles down on AI infrastructure with Zhenwu M890
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled the Zhenwu M890, a new proprietary AI training and inference chip developed by its semiconductor subsidiary T-Head Semiconductor, as the Chinese cloud group accelerates its push into full-stack AI infrastructure for the agentic AI era.
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