Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 chip scaling to 500K-card clusters, plans 5-10T parameter Qwen models
iamfakhrealam · x · 2026-09-22
At the Apsara Conference, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu outlined a full-stack AI push:
- Chips: The Zhenwu V900, billed as China's most powerful AI chip, scales up to 500,000 cards per cluster.
- Models: The Qwen team is pursuing Recursive Self-Improvement, with 5-10T parameter models planned; "Machine Thinking" is said to represent under 3% of human capacity, leaving a 1000x runway.
- Cloud: Global data center capacity to exceed 20GW by 2032.
The poster's takeaway: demand for AI outpaces what companies can build, so Alibaba is making the chips and computers that run it — "AI is starting to feel like electricity; whoever builds the power plants wins."
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