
Alibaba Group Holding introduced China's most powerful AI chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as executives reaffirmed ambitions to pursue artificial superintelligence at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou.
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Alibaba is investing in full-stack AI capabilities to move from technological breakthrough to value creation, focusing on AI models, chips, and cloud infrastructure.
Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as top executives reaffirmed the tech giant’s ambition to pursue artificial superintelligence (ASI).
Speaking at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday, group chairman Joe Tsai highlighted Alibaba’s commitment to building end-to-end capabilities.
“Alibaba is firmly investing in building full-stack AI ... to let AI move from a technological breakthrough to value creation,” Tsai said during his opening remarks at the flagship event, which runs through Thursday.
CEO Eddie Wu Yongming outlined the company’s road map during a keynote address, identifying “AI models, AI chips and the AI cloud” as the three cornerstones of the machine intelligence era. The company aims to scale its Alibaba Cloud global data-centre capacity to more than 20 gigawatts by 2032.
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Alibaba will scale its Alibaba Cloud global data-centre capacity to more than 20 gigawatts by 2032.
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Alibaba will train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters.
Possible · Within years

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