On Monday, Alibaba’s Qwen app announced the launch of a RMB 3 billion ($420 million) Spring Festival Treat Plan, offering massive free-order promotions to invite users nationwide to experience new AI-powered lifestyles during the Spring Festival. The program will go live on February 6, spanning multiple businesses across Alibaba’s ecosystem,…
Credit: T-Head Alibaba Group’s semiconductor unit T-Head on Thursday launched its self-developed high-end AI chip, Zhenwu 810E, the company said. Built on a fully in-house technology stack, the chip is equipped with 96GB of HBM2e memory and 700GB/s of inter-chip bandwidth, with performance comparable to NVIDIA’s H20, while some upgraded…
TLDR Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is waiting for China’s approval to sell the H200 AI chip in the country. Huang remains optimistic about the approval process, citing strong demand for the H200 in China. The Chinese government has already approved ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase over 400,000 H200 chips.…