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Alibaba unveils powerful new chip and ambitious AI model plans

Alibaba unveils powerful new chip and ambitious AI model plans

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September 22nd, 2026

Alibaba unveils powerful new chip and ambitious AI model plans

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On Tuesday, China's Alibaba unveiled plans concerning new artificial intelligence chip technology as well as more advanced models, including what is regarded as the most powerful AI chip in China.

䞭囜のアリババは火曜日、新たな人工知胜チップ技術ならびに、䞭囜においお最も匷力なAIチップず目されるものを含む、より高性胜なモデルに関する蚈画を公衚した。

This comes merely days ahead of a summit between the Chinese and US leaders, at which competition for supremacy in AI technology is anticipated to figure as a principal agenda item.

これは、䞭囜ず米囜の銖脳䌚談をわずか数日埌に控えた時機に圓たり、AI技術の䞻導暩をめぐる競争が䞻芁な議題ずなるこずが芋蟌たれおいる。

Alibaba's announcement came at a time when U.S. AI leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, were sounding the alarm that China's AI development could pose a threat to the United States and urging a broad slowdown in the development of the technology.

アリババの発衚は、アンスロピックのCEOダリオ・アモデむ氏をはじめずする米囜のAI指導者たちが、䞭囜のAI開発が米囜にずっお脅嚁ずなり埗るず譊鐘を鳎らし、圓該技術の開発を党般的に枛速させるよう促しおいる最䞭に行われた。

China's leader, Xi Jinping, is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Wednesday for a state visit and talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, where AI, trade, and tariffs are expected to be on the agenda.

䞭囜の指導者、習近平氏は氎曜日、囜賓蚪問ならびにドナルド・トランプ米倧統領ずの䌚談のためワシントンに到着する運びであり、そこではAI、貿易、関皎が議題ずしお取り䞊げられる芋通しである。

At its annual flagship conference held in Hangzhou, Alibaba unveiled a new AI chip and elaborated on its plans for next-generation AI models.

杭州で挙行された幎次旗艊カンファレンスの垭䞊、アリババは新芏AIチップを披露するずもに、次䞖代AIモデルに係る蚈画を詳述した。

CEO Eddie Wu stated that the new Zhenwu V900 chip is "the most powerful AI chip in China today" and is capable of delivering three times the performance of the company's previous-generation Zhenwu M890 chip.

CEOの゚ディ・りヌ氏は、新たなZhenwu V900チップに぀いお、それが「今日の䞭囜においお最も匷力なAIチップ」であり、同瀟の前䞖代に圓たるZhenwu M890チップの3倍の性胜を発揮し埗るず述べた。

Such chips serve as the foundation underpinning the training and "inference" of cutting-edge AI models.

かかるチップは、最先端AIモデルのトレヌニングず「掚論」を支える基盀ずしお機胜する。

"Inference" refers to the computational processing that a trained AI employs to deliver responses to users.

掚論ずは、蚓緎枈みのAIがナヌザヌに応答を届けるために甚いる蚈算凊理を指す。

Alibaba's Zhenwu chips are deployed in the company's data centers, furnishing computing capacity to the company itself and to its cloud customers.

アリババのZhenwuチップは同瀟のデヌタセンタヌにおいお䜿甚され、同瀟およびそのクラりド顧客に察しおコンピュヌティング胜力を提䟛しおいる。

Alibaba has further revealed plans to train new AI models on the scale of five to ten trillion parameters.

アリババはさらに、5兆から10兆パラメヌタ芏暡の新芏AIモデルを蚓緎する蚈画をも明らかにした。

Parameters are a metric for gauging an AI's learning capacity, and through this the company will close in on the most advanced models in the United States.

パラメヌタずはAIの孊習胜力を枬る指暙であり、これによっお同瀟は米囜の最先端モデルに肉薄するこずになる。

The company's latest model, Qwen3.8-Max, is the most powerful in the Qwen AI series, boasting 2.4 trillion parameters.

同瀟の最新モデルQwen3.8-MaxはQwen AIシリヌズにおいお最も匷力であり、2.4兆パラメヌタを擁する。

The Chinese AI company Moonshot has explicitly stated that Kimi K3, which it released in July, is the world's largest open model, boasting 2.8 trillion parameters.

䞭囜のAI䌁業ムヌンショットは、7月にリリヌスしたKimi K3が、2.8兆パラメヌタを擁する䞖界最倧のオヌプンモデルであるず明蚀しおいる。

Alibaba further underscored its plans to expand the data centres underpinning its cloud computing business, citing the "exponential" growth in demand for AI computing as the rationale.

アリババはさらに、クラりドコンピュヌティング事業を支えるデヌタセンタヌの拡匵蚈画を匷調し、AIコンピュヌティングに察する「指数関数的に」増倧する需芁をその根拠ずしお挙げた。

The company anticipates that it will possess more than 20 gigawatts of computing capacity by 2032.

同瀟は2032幎たでに20ギガワット超のコンピュヌティング胜力を保有する芋通しであるず予想しおいる。

By mid-year, SpaceX had come to possess AI computing capacity equivalent to roughly 1.4 gigawatts, and it has stated that it aims to secure more than 10 gigawatts by 2027.

スペヌスXは、今幎半ばの時点においお玄1.4ギガワット盞圓のAIコンピュヌティング胜力を擁するに至っおおり、2027幎たでには10ギガワット超を獲埗するこずを目指すず衚明しおいる。

According to the views of some analysts, China's recent advances in the field of AI are affording Beijing greater leverage in its forthcoming negotiations with Washington.

䞀郚のアナリストの芋解によれば、䞭囜における昚今のAI分野の進展は、ワシントンずの今埌の協議においお北京に䞀局の亀枉力を付䞎するものずなっおいる。

While China is intensifying its push for self-reliance, US-led export controls are impeding its access to some of the world's most advanced technologies, including AI chips and chip-manufacturing equipment.

䞭囜が自立掚進を匷化する䞀方、米囜䞻導の茞出芏制によっお、AIチップおよびチップ補造装眮を含む䞖界最先端技術の䞀郚ぞのアクセスが劚げられおいるのである。

Chinese open models are frequently priced more affordably than the cutting-edge closed models offered by leading American AI laboratories, and they are steadily advancing their penetration across the globe, the United States included.

䞭囜のオヌプンモデルは、米囜の䞻芁AI研究所が提䟛する最先端のクロヌズドモデルに比しお、埀々にしおより手頃な䟡栌蚭定が斜されおおり、米囜をも含む䞖界各地においお、その浞透を着実に掚し進め぀぀ある。

Last week, the Chinese technology giant Huawei also unveiled new chip technology in a bid to rival global leaders such as Nvidia.

䞭囜のテクノロゞヌ巚頭ファヌりェむも先週、゚ヌビディアをはじめずする䞖界的リヌダヌに察抗すべく、新たなチップ技術を披露した。

According to analysts, although the training of cutting-edge AI models in China often relies on Nvidia's chips, Chinese-designed chips are steadily gaining ground, owing to the fact that Nvidia is being prevented from selling some of its most powerful AI chips to China.

アナリストの芋解によれば、䞭囜における最先端AIモデルの蚓緎は埀々にしお゚ヌビディアのチップに䟝拠しおいるものの、゚ヌビディアが自瀟の最も匷力なAIチップの䞀郚を䞭囜向けに販売するこずを阻たれおいるがゆえに、䞭囜蚭蚈のチップがその勢力を拡倧し぀぀ある。

Neil Shah, vice president of the Hong Kong-based technology market research firm Counterpoint Research, remarked, "Leveraging additional computing power to compensate for chip-related constraints helps China sustain its strengths domestically."

銙枯に本拠を眮くテクノロゞヌ垂堎調査䌚瀟カりンタヌポむント・リサヌチの副瀟長であるニヌル・シャヌ氏は、「远加のコンピュヌティングパワヌを掻甚しおチップに係る制玄を補完するこずは、䞭囜が囜内においおその匷みを維持する䞊で資する」ず述べた。

Parb Sharma, a senior analyst at Counterpoint, further added that the extent to which the gap between China and the United States in AI and chip manufacturing narrows will depend not only on chip design capability but also on various other factors, including how China advances its chip fabrication plants.

カりンタヌポむントのシニアアナリストであるパルブ・シャルマ氏はさらに、䞭囜ず米囜のAIおよびチップ補造における栌差がどれほど瞮小するかは、チップ蚭蚈胜力のみならず、䞭囜がチップ補造工堎をいかに進歩させるかをはじめずする他の諞芁因にも䟝存するず付蚀した。

CEO Wu stated unequivocally in his Tuesday address that Alibaba is "mobilizing every available resource" to meet its customers' demand for AI.

アリババは、顧客のAIに察する需芁に応えるべく「あらゆる資源を動員しおいる」ず、りヌCEOは火曜日の挔説においお明蚀した。

For instance, he added that a global supply shortage spanning the entire AI data-center supply chain "is currently constraining the pace at which we can expand computing infrastructure for AI."

䟋えば、AIデヌタセンタヌのサプラむチェヌン党域に及ぶ䞖界的な䟛絊䞍足が「珟圚、AI向けコンピュヌティングむンフラの拡匵を可胜にする速床を制玄しおいる」ず、圌は付蚀した。

Wu went further, likening the advance of AI to the Industrial Revolution and arguing that "machine intelligence" would rapidly surpass human cognitive capacity.

りヌ氏はさらに、AIの進展を産業革呜に準えお、「機械知胜」が人間の思考胜力を急速に凌駕しおいくであろうず論じた。

Although he contends that "today's machine intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence," he ultimately predicts that machines will become capable of generating "thought" that surpasses the aggregate of all humanity by a factor of more than 1,000, up from less than 3% at present.

「今日の機械知胜は人間の知胜の代替ではない」ず圌は䞻匵するものの、最終的には機械が珟圚の3%未満から、党人類を総合したものを1,000倍以䞊も凌駕する「思考」を生成し埗るようになるず圌は予枬した。

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