Alibaba is scaling both sides of the AI race: larger models and custom silicon. At its Apsara Conference on Sept. 22, the company unveiled the Zhenwu V900, a new processor for AI training and inference that Alibaba says delivers three times the performance of its Zhenwu M890, released in May 2026.
Alibaba also confirmed that Qwen 4 is in training and said Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 are projected to scale to between 5 trillion and 10 trillion parameters. Together, the announcements show Alibaba expanding across custom chips, AI models, and cloud infrastructure, although pricing, software support, and customer access for the V900 remain unresolved…
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