SHANGHAI, – China’s synthetic intelligence firms have introduced two new business alliances, aiming to develop a home ecosystem to scale back dependence on overseas tech as they search to deal with U.S. export restrictions on superior Nvidia chipsets.
The bulletins have been timed to coincide with the three-day World Synthetic Intelligence Convention in Shanghai ending on Monday.
The convention additionally showcased a slew of recent merchandise, akin to an AI computing system from Huawei that consultants consider rivals Nvidia’s most superior providing, in addition to consumer-friendly merchandise akin to a number of sorts of digital AI glasses.
The “Mannequin-Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance” brings collectively Chinese language builders of huge language fashions and AI chip producers.
“That is an modern ecosystem that connects the whole expertise chain from chips to fashions to infrastructure,” mentioned Zhao Lidong, CEO of Enflame, one of many taking part chipmakers.
Different producers of graphics processing items within the alliance embrace Huawei, Biren, and Moore Threads, which have been hit by U.S. sanctions that block them from buying superior tech made with U.S. know-how. The alliance was introduced by StepFun, an LLM developer.
A second alliance, the Shanghai Common Chamber of Commerce AI Committee, goals to “promote the deep integration of AI expertise and industrial transformation.”
Members embrace SenseTime, additionally sanctioned by the U.S. and which has pivoted from facial recognition expertise to LLMs. Others are StepFun and one other LLM developer, MiniMax, in addition to chipmakers Metax and Iluvatar CoreX.
Probably the most talked about merchandise on the convention was Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384 which contains 384 of its newest 910C chips and outperforms Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 on some metrics, in response to U.S. analysis agency SemiAnalysis.
Huawei’s system design capabilities have meant that it has been ready to make use of extra chips and system-level improvements to compensate for weaker particular person chip efficiency, SemiAnalysis mentioned.
Not less than six different Chinese language computing companies showcased related “clustering” chip expertise. Metax demonstrated an AI supernode that includes 128 C550 chips designed to help large-scale liquid-cooled knowledge centre necessities.
Different occasions included Tencent’s unveiling of its open-source Hunyuan3D World Mannequin 1.0, which the corporate mentioned permits customers to generate interactive 3D environments by way of textual content or picture prompts.
Baidu introduced what it mentioned was next-generation “digital human” expertise that helps companies to create digital livestreamers. It options “cloning expertise” that may replicate a human’s voice, tone, and physique language from simply 10 minutes of pattern footage.
Alibaba was amongst these asserting AI glasses. Its Quark AI Glasses are powered by its Qwen AI mannequin and are as a consequence of be launched in China by the top of 2025. They’ll enable customers to entry the tech big’s map service for straightforward navigating and to make use of Alipay by scanning QR codes with voice instructions.
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