Alibaba Unveils Cutting-Edge AI Chip: 'Zhenwu' PPU Takes Center Stage

Alibaba's 'Zhenwu' PPU chip, the heart of their AI 'golden triangle', marks a significant advancement in AI computing. The chip, boasting impressive performance, is designed to power the company's large language models and cloud infrastructure, signaling a major move in the AI landscape.

• •Alibaba's 'Zhenwu' PPU is a self-developed AI chip designed for AI training, inference, and autonomous driving applications.
• •The chip is part of the 'Tongyige' AI supercomputer, integrating Alibaba's cloud platform, AI lab, and chip design teams.
• •Performance is claimed to be competitive with NVIDIA's high-end GPUs, and is already deployed in large-scale cloud clusters.