China AI companies form Alliances to foster domestic ecosystem, US restrictions likely to…
Beijing: Artificial intelligence (AI) companies in China have declared two new industry alliances with the aim to reduce dependency on foreign technology by developing a domestic ecosystem. They further aim to cope with the US export restrictions on advanced Nvidia chipsets. These announcements were strategically timed to align with the 3-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference taking place in Shanghai.
A variety of new products were also showcased in this conference including an AI computing system by Huawei, which experts say competes with Nvidia’s top-tier solution, as well as consumer-friendly products such as several kinds of digital AI glasses. Bringing together China’s leading AI chip producers and LLM developers, the ‘Model-Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance’ aims to foster collaboration.
Zhao Lidong, the CEO of Enflame (one of the participating chipmakers) said, “This is an innovative ecosystem that connects the complete technology chain from chips to models to infrastructure”
Other Key Producers Stance
Other key Graphic Processing Units producers participating in the alliance include Huawei, Biren, and Moore Threads. These have been severely hit by U.S. sanctions as it blocks them from purchasing advanced tech made with U.S. The alliance was announced by StepFun, an LLM developer. Another alliance, The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce has also launched an AI Committee that aims to “promote the deep integration of AI technology and industrial transformation.”
Other participants sanctioned by the US such as SenseTime, has pivoted from facial recognition technology to LLMs. Others are StepFun and another LLM developer, MiniMax, as well as chipmakers Metax and Iluvatar CoreX.
The highlight of the conference and the most talked about product remains the CloudMatrix 384 by Huawei that incorporates 384 of its latest 910C chips and outperforms Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 on some metrics, according to U.S. research firm SemiAnalysis.
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