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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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 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's Joe Tsai voices concern about AI data center construction bubble
Fears buildout might outstrip demand
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Alibaba, Apple, and Synopsys become latest members of UALink Consortium
Consortium now has more than 65 members
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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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Scaleway launches first RISC-V servers on the cloud
New instances are powered by Alibaba's T-Head RISC-V C910 SoC
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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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China’s Shandong University deploys RISC-V cloud cluster
Potentially the first commercial cloud deployment of a RISC-V cluster
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China's tech giants order $5bn in Nvidia chips, including 100,000 A800 GPUs for 2023
Local hyperscalers want to get in on generative AI explosion, but can only get pared-back chips
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US gov't considering restrictions on China's access to American cloud providers
New regulation being mulled to close embargo loopholes
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Nvidia creates pared back H100 GPU for export to China, called H800
Worse data transfer rates to get past sanctions
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US government blacklists China's largest server maker Inspur, used by Cisco, IBM, Intel, Nvidia
Company is also a cloud provider in China
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Alibaba Cloud and XPeng Motors build autonomous vehicle cloud data center
Make big - but vague - claims about system performance
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Alibaba announces plans for new Cloud regions in South Korea and Thailand, details new in-house Arm processors
New facilities coming in 2022, new chip to be used in company’s data centers
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Alibaba to hire 5,000 people to expand Cloud business
Amidst major expansion plans
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Cloud providers see "aggressive" growth amidst Covid-19 pandemic
Every cloud has a silver lining
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Alibaba to offer its own AI inferencing chip on the cloud
Joining Google, Facebook and Amazon in deploying its own hardware
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Alibaba develops its first AI and IoT chip, based on RISC-V architecture
Helping decrease China's dependence on foreign-designed chips
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Intel, Google and others join forces for CXL interconnect
CXL is designed to create a high-speed, low latency interconnect between the CPU and workload accelerators
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Alibaba oulines plans for quantum processors, AI chips
Developed by a new, yet-unnamed subsidiary
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China's SenseTime, the world's most valuable AI startup, plans five supercomputers
After raising $600 million in its latest round, the company looks to expand its surveillance capabilities
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Alibaba launches European HPC service, 11-qubit quantum computing cloud in China
One for today, another for tomorrow
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Qualcomm launches 48-core, 10nm Arm server processor, the Centriq 2400
Microsoft, Alibaba and Google sing praises as they welcome competition in the data center space
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Chinese cloud giants get Nvidia's latest
The biggest tech companies in China nab AI-friendly chips in data center upgrade