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Release2026-09-22

Alibaba unveiled its Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator chip. It triples the performance of its predecessor. The chip can be clustered in groups of up to 500,000 units. Alibaba targets 20 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032. It plans a model with 5 to 10 trillion parameters. The company committed over $53 billion to AI over three years. It raised $10.2 billion in a Hong Kong share offering in August. CEO Eddie Wu set AI as the company’s guiding priority.

What changed

Previous Alibaba AI chip had one-third the performance.

What it unlocks

Training frontier models with clusters of up to 500,000 chips.

  • 20GW data center capacity by 2032
  • $53B AI spend over 3 years
  • 5-10 trillion parameters
  • 500,000-unit clusters

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