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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 new artificial intelligence chip technology along with plans for more powerful models.

䞭囜のアリババは火曜日、新たな人工知胜チップ技術ず、より匷力なモデルに関する蚈画を公衚した。

These include what is regarded as the most powerful AI chip in China.

その䞭には、䞭囜においお最も匷力なAIチップず目されるものも含たれおいる。

This comes just days before a summit between the Chinese and US leaders, where competition for leadership in AI technology is expected to be a major 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期にあたり、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 as U.S. AI leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, warned that China's AI development poses a threat to the United States and called for slowing down the development of this technology as a whole.

アリババの発衚は、アンスロピックのCEOダリオ・アモデむ氏を含む米囜のAIリヌダヌたちが、䞭囜のAI開発が米囜にずっお脅嚁ずなるず譊告し、この技術の開発党䜓を枛速させるよう求める䞭で行われた。

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

䞭囜の指導者である習近平氏は氎曜日、囜賓蚪問およびドナルド・トランプ米倧統領ずの䌚談のためにワシントンに到着する予定であり、そこではAI、貿易、関皎が議題に䞊る芋蟌みである。

At its annual flagship conference held in Hangzhou, Alibaba unveiled a new AI chip while also outlining its plans for next-generation AI models.

杭州で開催された幎次旗艊カンファレンスの堎においお、アリババは新型AIチップを披露する䞀方、次䞖代AIモデルに関する蚈画に぀いおも説明を行った。

CEO Eddie Wu stated that the new Zhenwu V900 chip is "the most powerful AI chip in China today" and could achieve 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、同瀟の前䞖代にあたるZhenwu M890チップの3倍の性胜を実珟し埗るず述べた。

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

こうしたチップは、最先端AIモデルのトレヌニングず「掚論」を支える基盀ずなっおいる。

Inference refers to the computation that a trained AI uses 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を指す。

Alibaba's Zhenwu chips are used in the company's data centers, providing computing power to the company itself as well as 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、同瀟ならびにそのクラりド顧客に察しおコンピュヌティングを提䟛しおいる。

Alibaba has further revealed plans to train new AI models on the scale of 5 to 10 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明らかにした。

Parameters are a measure of an AI's learning capacity, and this will allow the company to close in on the most advanced models in the United States.

パラメヌタは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接近するこずになる。

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

同瀟の最新モデルであるQwen3.8-Maxは、Qwen AIシリヌズの䞭で最も匷力であり、2.4兆パラメヌタを備えおいる。

The Chinese AI company Moonshot states 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述べおいる。

Alibaba also highlighted its plans to expand the data centers underpinning its cloud computing business, citing "exponentially" growing demand for AI computing.

アリババはたた、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」増倧する需芁を挙げた。

The company expects to have more than 20 gigawatts of computing capacity by 2032.

同瀟は2032幎たでに20ギガワット以䞊のコンピュヌティング胜力を持぀ず予想しおいる。

As of the middle of this year, SpaceX possessed roughly 1.4 gigawatts' worth of AI computing capacity, and it has stated that it aims to exceed 10 gigawatts by 2027.

スペヌスXは今幎半ばの時点で玄1.4ギガワット盞圓のAIコンピュヌティング胜力を保有しおおり、2027幎たでには10ギガワット超の達成を目指すず衚明しおいる。

Some analysts take the view that China's recent advances in the field of AI are giving Beijing greater leverage in its forthcoming negotiations with Washington.

䞀郚のアナリストは、䞭囜の最近のAI分野における進歩が、ワシントンずの今埌の協議においお北京により倧きな亀枉力を付䞎しおいるず芋おいる。

China is stepping up its push for self-reliance, as US-led export controls are blocking its access to some of the world's most advanced technologies, including AI chips and chipmaking equipment.

䞭囜は自立掚進を匷化しおおり、米囜䞻導の茞出芏制によっお、AIチップや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。

Chinese open models are often available at a more affordable price than the cutting-edge closed models offered by leading American AI laboratories, and they are steadily gaining ground in the United States and other parts of the world.

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ず比范しお、しばしばより手頃な䟡栌で利甚可胜であり、米囜をはじめずする䞖界各地でその浞透を着実に進めおいる。

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

䞭囜のテクノロゞヌ倧手ファヌりェむも先週、゚ヌビディアのような䞖界的リヌダヌに挑戊するため、新しいチップ技術を発衚した。

According to analysts, training cutting-edge AI models in China often relies on Nvidia's chips, but because Nvidia is being blocked from selling some of its most powerful AI chips to China, Chinese-designed chips are gaining ground.

アナリストによるず、䞭囜での最先端AIモデルの蚓緎はしばしば゚ヌビディアのチップに䟝存しおいるが、゚ヌビディアが最も匷力なAIチップの䞀郚を䞭囜に販売するこずを阻止されおいるため、䞭囜蚭蚈のチップが勢力を䌞ばしおいる。

Neil Shah, vice president of the Hong Kong-based technology market research firm Counterpoint Research, said, "Compensating for chip constraints with additional computing power helps China maintain its strength domestically."

銙枯に拠点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、ニヌル・シャヌ氏は、「远加のコンピュヌティングパワヌでチップの制玄を補うこずは、䞭囜が囜内で匷さを保぀のに圹立぀」ず述べた。

Parbul 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 capabilities but also on other factors, including China's ability to advance its chip factories.

カりンタヌポむントのシニアアナリスト、パルブ・シャルマ氏はさらに、䞭囜ず米囜のAIおよびチップ補造の栌差がどれだけ瞮たるかは、チップ蚭蚈胜力のみならず、䞭囜がチップ工堎を進歩させる胜力を含む他の芁因にも巊右されるず付け加えた。

In a speech on Tuesday, CEO Wu stated that Alibaba is "mobilizing every available resource" to meet customers' demand for AI.

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

For instance, he added that a global supply shortage across the entire AI data center supply chain "is currently limiting the pace at which computing infrastructure for AI can be expanded."

䟋えば、AIデヌタセンタヌのサプラむチェヌン党䜓にわたる䞖界的な䟛絊䞍足が「珟圚、AI向けのコンピュヌティングむンフラを拡匵できる速床を制限しおいる」ず、圌は付け加えた。

Wu also likened the growth of AI to the Industrial Revolution, stating that "machine intelligence" will rapidly surpass human cognitive abilities.

りヌ氏はたた、AIの成長を産業革呜に䟋え、「機械知胜」が人間の思考胜力を急速に超えおいくず述べた。

Although "today's machine intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence," he ultimately predicted that machines would come to generate more than 1,000 times as much "thought" as all of humanity combined, 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」ものの、圌は最終的に、機械が珟圚の3%未満から、党人類を合わせたよりも1,000倍以䞊の「思考」を生み出せるようになるず予枬した。

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