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Alibaba Unveils New High-Performance Chip and Ambitious AI Model Plans

Alibaba Unveils New High-Performance Chip and Ambitious AI Model Plans

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September 22nd, 2026

Alibaba Unveils New High-Performance Chip and Ambitious AI Model Plans

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On Tuesday, China's Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technology and plans to develop more powerful models, including what the company claims is the most powerful AI chip China has produced to date.

周二中国阿里巴巴揭晓了新型人工智能芯片技术开发更强大模型的规划其中涵盖该公司所宣称的中国迄今最强人工智能芯片

With only days remaining until a meeting between Chinese and American leaders, the race to lead in artificial intelligence is expected to figure as a major agenda item at that gathering.

距中美领导人会晤仅余数日预计在这场会晤中引领人工智能技术的角逐将构成一项主要议题

At the very moment Alibaba released the aforementioned announcement, leading American figures in artificial intelligence, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, were issuing warnings that China's advances in AI pose a threat to the United States, and were calling for a comprehensive slowdown in the development of this technology.

值阿里巴巴发布上述消息之时,包括Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊在内的美国人工智能领军人物正纷纷警告称,中国人工智能的发展对美国构成威胁,并呼吁全面放缓这项技术的发展。

China's President Xi Jinping will arrive in Washington on Wednesday for a state visit, during which he will hold a meeting with US President Donald Trump; artificial intelligence, trade, and tariffs are expected to feature on the agenda.

中国国家主席习近平将于周三抵埠华盛顿,展开国事访问行程,其间将与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普举行会晤,预计人工智能、贸易及关税诸议题将纳入会谈议程。

At its annual flagship event held in Hangzhou, Alibaba unveiled a brand-new artificial intelligence chip and sketched out a blueprint for its next-generation artificial intelligence model.

在杭州举办的年度旗舰盛会上,阿里巴巴揭晓了一款全新的人工智能芯片,并勾勒出其下一代人工智能模型的规划蓝图。

Chief Executive Wu Yongming proclaimed that the new Zhenwu V900 chip could justly be called "the most powerful AI chip in China today," its performance reaching as much as three times that of the company's previous-generation Zhenwu M890 chip.

首席执行官吴泳铭宣称新款真武V900芯片堪称当今中国最强大的人工智能芯片”,其性能可达该公司上一代真武M890芯片三倍之多

Chips of this kind furnish the computational power underpinning the training of frontier AI models as well as their "inference" process.

此类芯片前沿人工智能模型的训练及其“推理”过程提供算力支撑

By "inference" is meant the computation that a trained AI performs when generating responses for users.

所谓“推理”,即经训练后的人工智能在为用户生成回应时所执行的计算。

Alibaba's Zhenwu chips are deployed in its data centres, supplying computing power to the company itself and to its cloud customers.

阿里巴巴旗下的真武芯片部署于其数据中心该公司自身及其云客户提供算力

Alibaba has also declared its intention to train a new artificial intelligence model with a parameter scale of between 5 trillion and 10 trillionparameters being a metric of an AI's capacity to learna move that will bring it ever closer to America's most cutting-edge models.

阿里巴巴亦宣称其拟训练一款参数规模介于5万亿至10万亿之间新型人工智能模型——参数系衡量人工智能学习能力之指标——此举将使其愈发逼近美国最为尖端的模型

Its newly launched Qwen3.8-Max model is the most powerful in the Qwen artificial intelligence series, boasting 2.4 trillion parameters.

其最新推出的Qwen3.8-Max模型Qwen人工智能系列中最为强劲者坐拥2.4万亿参数

The Chinese AI company Moonshot AI claims that Kimi K3, which it launched in July, ranks as the world's largest open model, boasting 2.8 trillion parameters.

中国人工智能企业月之暗面宣称,其于7月推出的Kimi K3堪称全球规模最大的开放模型,坐拥2.8万亿参数。

Alibaba also underscored that it intends to further expand the data centers powering its cloud computing business, citing the reason that demand for AI computing power is rising "exponentially."

阿里巴巴亦着重指出其拟进一步拓展为云计算业务供能数据中心所据理由为人工智能算力需求呈指数级攀升

The company asserts that its computing capacity is expected to exceed 20 gigawatts by 2032.

该公司宣称预计至2032年其算力规模将逾20吉瓦

As of the middle of this year, SpaceX commanded roughly 1.4 gigawatts of AI compute capacity, and it has declared that its stated goal is to surpass 10 gigawatts before 2027.

截至本年年中,SpaceX所掌控的人工智能算力约为1.4吉瓦,并宣称其既定目标是在2027年前突破10吉瓦。

Some analysts point out that China's recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence are adding leverage for Beijing in the talks it is about to hold with Washington, against the backdrop of China's sustained intensification of its drive toward self-reliance and self-strengtheningeven though US-led export restrictions have already denied it access to some of the world's most cutting-edge technologies, including AI chips and chipmaking equipment.

部分分析人士指出,中国近期在人工智能领域取得的进展,正为北京在即将与华盛顿展开的会谈中增添筹码,其背景是中国持续加大自立自强的推进力度——尽管美国主导的出口限制已令其无缘获取包括人工智能芯片及芯片制造设备在内的一些全球最尖端技术。

China's open models tend to be more cost-effective than the cutting-edge closed-source models developed by America's leading AI laboratories; and these models are steadily gaining ground worldwideincluding on American soil.

中国那些开放模型相较于美国顶尖人工智能实验室所研发的尖端闭源模型往往更具成本效益而这些模型在全球范围内——包括在美国本土——不断取得进展

Huawei, China's technology giant, also unveiled new chip technology last week, seeking to take on global leaders such as Nvidia.

中国科技巨擘华为亦于上周发布了新型芯片技术力图向英伟达等全球领军者发起挑战

Analysts note that the training of China's cutting-edge AI models has often depended on Nvidia chips; however, as Nvidia is barred from selling some of its most powerful AI chips to China, domestically developed Chinese chips are steadily making headway.

分析人士指出中国前沿人工智能模型的训练往往有赖于英伟达芯片然而,随着英伟达被禁止向中国出售其部分最为强大的人工智能芯片中国自主研发的芯片正逐步取得进展

Neil Shah, vice president of the Hong Kong-based technology market research firm Counterpoint Research, pointed out: "Leveraging additional computing power to compensate for chip-related constraints helps China sustain a strong position domestically."

总部设于香港的科技市场研究机构Counterpoint Research副总裁尼尔·沙阿指出:“借助额外算力以弥补芯片方面的制约,裨益于中国在本土维持强劲态势。”

Parv Sharma, a senior analyst at Counterpoint, further noted that the extent to which the gap between China and the United States in the fields of artificial intelligence and chip manufacturing can actually be bridged still hinges on numerous other variables, among them China's capacity to advance chip foundry manufacturingrather than confining itself merely to chip design.

Counterpoint资深分析师帕尔夫·夏尔马进一步指出中美两国在人工智能与芯片制造领域的差距究竟能在何等程度上得以弥合尚取决于诸多其他变量其中包括中国推进芯片代工制造——而非仅仅局限于芯片设计——的能力。

In a speech on Tuesday, CEO Wu Yongming declared that Alibaba is "mobilizing every available resource" to meet customer demand for artificial intelligence.

在周二的演讲中,首席执行官吴泳铭宣称,阿里巴巴正“调动一切资源”,以满足客户对人工智能的需求。

He went on to add that, for instance, the global shortage in the AI data-center supply chain "is currently constraining the pace at which we can expand our AI computing infrastructure."

他继而补充道譬如全球人工智能数据中心供应链的短缺,“目前制约着我们拓展人工智能算力基础设施的速率”。

Wu Yongming went further, likening the growth of artificial intelligence to the Industrial Revolution and proclaiming that "machine intelligence" would swiftly surpass human cognitive capacity.

吴泳铭更将人工智能之增长类比于工业革命,并宣称“机器智能”将迅速凌驾于人类思维能力之上。

Although he candidly concedes that "today's machine intelligence cannot yet replace human intelligence," he predicts that the "thinking" machines will ultimately be capable of generating will exceed the sum total of all humanity's by a factor of a thousand, whereas at present that ratio stands at less than 3 percent.

尽管他坦言“当今的机器智能还不能替代人类智能”,但他预言,机器最终所能生成的“思考”将逾全人类总和之千倍,而当下这一比例尚不足3%。

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