Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip for Training and Inferencing

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. added a new processor to its expanding AI technology stack, enhancing a push to cover every aspect of artificial intelligence development.

The company’s chipmaking unit T-Head unveiled its Zhenwu M890 AI accelerator, equipped with 144GB of GPU memory, at an event in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday. The hardware will handle both training and inferencing jobs and will be particularly suitable for agentic tasks, Alibaba said. The company now plans to upgrade its Zhenwu chip every year, accelerating the rate to roughly the same pace as industry leader Nvidia Corp.

Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wu pledged last ...