Apsara Conference's real story: China's full AI stack, chips to robotics
manishkhosiya · x · 2026-09-23
The author's key takeaway from Alibaba Cloud's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou isn't another new model, but how much of the AI stack is converging: chips, compute, cloud, models, agents, robotics, and real-world applications all in one ecosystem.
He frames this as an industry inflection: AI is shifting from "look what this model can do" to "how do we build, deploy and scale across industries" — and Apsara is a window into how that transition is playing out across China's AI ecosystem.
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