Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip
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Alibaba claiming 3x the performance of its prior Zhenwu M890 and tying it to 20 GW-scale data centers and Qwen 5 is a vertical integration move—compute, cloud, and model under one roof. If you operate in or sell into China, assume a parallel AI stack is maturing that won’t depend on Western accelerators.
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