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China's Alibaba unveils new powerful chip and ambitious AI model plans - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

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Alibaba plans to expand its data centers to over 20 gigawatts' worth of computing by 2032 to meet rising demand for AI computing.

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HONG KONG -- China’s Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies and plans for more powerful models on Tuesday, including what it said was China's most powerful AI chip, days ahead of a meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders at which competition to lead on AI technology is expected to be a major theme. Alibaba’s announcement came as U.S. AI leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, are warning that China's development of AI poses a threat to the United States and calling for an overall slowdown on development of the technology. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington on Wednesday for a state visit and meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at which AI, trade and tariffs are expected to be discussed. At its annual flagship conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba rolled out a new AI chip and described its plans for the next generation of its AI model. CEO Eddie Wu said the new Zhenwu V900 chip is the “most powerful AI chip in China today” and can deliver three times the performance of the company's previous generation Zhenwu M890 chip. Such chips power frontier AI model training and “inference,” a term for the calculations a trained AI uses to deliver responses to users. Alibaba's Zhenwu chips are used in its data centers, providing computing to the company and its cloud clients. Alibaba also said it plans to train a new AI model at the...

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Alibaba also highlighted plans to expand the data centers that power its cloud computing business, citing “exponentially” rising demand for AI computing.

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Facility expansion

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Confidence
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Detected
Sep 22, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
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GET /v1/signals/40a9c1f4-8f40-212e-bb5d-f003d8c0d9ff returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for alibabagroup.com.

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