Alibaba Shares Rise on Zhenwu V900 AI Chip Announcement
Alibaba shares rose nearly 4% after unveiling its latest AI chip, the Zhenwu V900. The company claims a threefold performance improvement over previous models and plans to mass-produce it in early 2027 for use in large-scale AI training clusters with up to 500,000 chips. The move comes as U.S.-imposed export controls have limited access to NVIDIA's advanced GPUs in China. While Alibaba is capitalizing on this gap, Baidu’s stock remained nearly flat at just a 0.3% gain, suggesting the market views this development more as an Alibaba-specific win than a broader AI sector shift. Despite strong performance claims from Alibaba, no independent benchmarks have been released yet and mass production remains scheduled for early next year.
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