China is ramping up efforts in the AI race, as tech giants Alibaba Group Holding and Huawei Technologies deploy massive computing clusters in the push to develop home-grown infrastructure.<\/p>\n
E-commerce giant Alibaba has announced the deployment of a 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster powered by the Zhenwu AI chips<\/a> developed by its T-Head<\/a> semiconductor design arm.<\/p>\n Launched in collaboration with China Telecom in the Shaoguan data centre in Guangdong province, the \u201cfully domestic\u201d cluster was the first Zhenwu-powered project of such scale in the Greater Bay Area, Alibaba\u2019s cloud unit said in a statement issued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The Zhenwu-powered cluster is the latest evidence that China is doubling down on home-grown infrastructure to supercharge rapidly evolving AI development and meet surging demand as the artificial intelligence race with US rivals including Meta, Microsoft and Elon Musk\u2019s xAI intensifies.<\/p>\n The new cluster showed China\u2019s advanced computing power was \u201cmoving from high-end performance breakthroughs to large-scale industrial implementation\u201d, Alibaba Cloud said in its statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is ramping up efforts in the AI race, as tech giants Alibaba Group Holding and Huawei Technologies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,8065,5682,218,219,16054,2102,114,10185,6075,6160,61,60,1226,1071,233,5698,2842,80,172315],"class_list":{"0":"post-387854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alibaba","10":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-ascend","14":"tag-beijing","15":"tag-china","16":"tag-china-telecom","17":"tag-guangdong","18":"tag-huawei-technologies","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-meta","22":"tag-microsoft","23":"tag-nvidia","24":"tag-shanghai","25":"tag-shenzhen","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-zhenwu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}