Apsara Conference's real story: a full AI stack from chips to robots
manishkhosiya · x · 2026-09-24
The biggest takeaway from Alibaba's Apsara Conference wasn't a new model but a full AI ecosystem on display — chips, compute, cloud, models, agents, robotics, and real-world applications, all in one place in Hangzhou. The author argues AI is shifting from 'look what this model can do' to 'how do we build, deploy and scale this across industries', with Apsara as a window into that transition in China's AI ecosystem.
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