{"id":18677,"date":"2026-04-08T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/as-ai-race-with-us-intensifies-alibaba-launches-10000-card-computing-cluster\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:27:54","slug":"as-ai-race-with-us-intensifies-alibaba-launches-10000-card-computing-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/as-ai-race-with-us-intensifies-alibaba-launches-10000-card-computing-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"As AI race with US intensifies, Alibaba launches 10,000-card computing cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/08\/ea7fd059-b58d-4d49-ac2f-cc4848113be1_fb74d80e.jpg?itok=Mu22tSLb&amp;v=1775625093\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China is ramping up efforts in the AI race, as tech giants Alibaba Group Holding and Huawei Technologies deploy massive computing clusters in the push to develop home-grown infrastructure.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"9.7237569060773\">E-commerce giant Alibaba has announced the deployment of a 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster powered by the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Zhenwu AI chips<\/span> developed by its <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">T-Head<\/span> semiconductor design arm.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Launched in collaboration with China Telecom in the Shaoguan data centre in Guangdong province, the &ldquo;fully domestic&rdquo; cluster was the first Zhenwu-powered project of such scale in the Greater Bay Area, Alibaba&rsquo;s cloud unit said in a statement issued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Zhenwu-powered cluster is the latest evidence that China is doubling down on home-grown infrastructure to supercharge rapidly evolving AI development and meet surging demand as the artificial intelligence race with US rivals including Meta, Microsoft and Elon Musk&rsquo;s xAI intensifies.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1xd1hm8 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new cluster showed China&rsquo;s advanced computing power was &ldquo;moving from high-end performance breakthroughs to large-scale industrial implementation&rdquo;, Alibaba Cloud said in its statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>As AI race with US intensifies, Alibaba launches 10,000-card computing cluster<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is ramping up efforts in the AI race, as tech giants Alibaba Group Holding and Huawei Technologies deploy massive computing clusters in the push to develop home-grown infrastructure. E-commerce giant Alibaba has announced the deployment of a 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster powered by the Zhenwu AI chips developed by its T-Head semiconductor design arm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/as-ai-race-with-us-intensifies-alibaba-launches-10000-card-computing-cluster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;As AI race with US intensifies, Alibaba launches 10,000-card computing cluster&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}