Alibaba Cloud plans to lean on its self-developed chips moving forward
Hopes this will improve its margin and profitability
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AI lab Moonshot leases 20,000 Nvidia GPUs from Alibaba Cloud - report
Makes up a significant proportion of Moonshot's overall compute capacity for Kimi models
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Alibaba announces new AI chip for training and inferencing workloads
Zhenwu M890 has 144GB of GPU memory
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Alibaba Cloud needs 10x its 2022 compute capacity, says CEO Eddie Wu
While Tencent Cloud struggles to generate an ROI from GPUs
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Alibaba ships 470,000 AI chips, predicts $100bn in cloud and AI revenue in the future
But investors remain unimpressed
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Chinese cloud providers hike up prices for cloud and AI services
Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, and Baidu hop on the bandwagon
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China approves Nvidia H200 purchases for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent - report
Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit
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Alibaba Cloud revenue grows 34%, company can't keep up with AI demand
Alibaba dismisses concerns about an "AI bubble"
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Google Cloud plans LA28 Games partnership, Alibaba Cloud teams up with NBA China
Cloud and AI services for games around the world
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China Unicom builds "massive" data center with locally-developed AI chips in China
Chips provided by Alibaba and other companies
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Bosch and Alibaba sign cloud and AI agreement
Will focus on cloud migration and AI cooperation
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Alibaba's cloud unit sees 26% revenue growth YoY
Compared to company-wide revenue growth of just two percent
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Alibaba develops AI inferencing chip as exports of Nvidia H20 continue to stall - report
The China-made chip is currently being tested by the company
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Alibaba Cloud reaffirms $52.7bn global buildout plans
CEO Eddie Wu says company will create a "unified global cloud network" in the wake of H20 export bans
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Alibaba Group to invest $53bn in cloud and AI infrastructure in next three years
Expects this period to be the company's "most concentrated and highest level of investments"
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Alibaba Cloud revenue up 7% for the quarter, cites AI as key factor
Tencent also releases quarterly earnings
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Alibaba Cloud claims modular data center can halve build times
Company invests in solutions to help satisfy demand for AI
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AWS, Microsoft, and Google top cloud market everywhere bar China - Synergy
Plus data center M&A deals forecasted to hit record levels
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Alibaba Cloud revenue hits $3.64bn for the quarter
A six percent growth rate, alongside increasing capex spend
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Baidu obtains just five percent of energy from renewable sources - Greenpeace
Report highlights mixed sustainability progress of China's tech giants
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Alibaba extends cloud price cuts to international customers
Cloud costs cut by as much as 59 percent for customers globally
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Alibaba cuts cloud services costs by up to 55%, JD drops prices
While Chinese tech giants hog AI-training computing resources
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Alibaba and Baidu close quantum research labs
Neither company has given a reason for the closures, despite the Chinese government designating the technology a strategic priority
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Alibaba shuts quantum computing lab amid cutbacks
30 people set to lose jobs from closure of lab
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US chip export ban scuppers Alibaba's cloud spin off
Shares fall by 10 percent
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China’s Shandong University deploys RISC-V cloud cluster
Potentially the first commercial cloud deployment of a RISC-V cluster
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Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang quits company, steps down as leader of cloud unit
Leadership restructure was meant to see Zhang focus solely on Alibaba Cloud