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A supernode is a set of accelerators wired together tightly enough that software treats them as one very large chip rather than a network of separate ones. This approach is often necessary; a model too big to fit on a single card would otherwise have to shovel data across comparatively slow networking, and that overhead can determine whether trillion-parameter models are practical to serve. One of the best examples is Nvidia's GB200 NVL72, which leverages 72 of its Blackwell GPUs in a single configuration, or AMD's 72-GPU Helios configuration, which offers its own Instinct MI455X GPUs with mor
Rent a supernode by the hour - Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud, but only if you live in this remote Chinese province…In June, Anthropic told lawmakers that Alibaba had systematically distilled its models in order to build its own, called Qwen. There’s no indication that Chinese AI companies used this specific technique…
…The HAS framework has been used in Alibaba Cloud Elastic MapReduce (E-MapReduce (EMR))* and Cloud HBase*. These products implement multiple plugins based on the interface provided by HAS to enable connecting…
…Ultra Accelerator Link, or UALink is an open specification for a die-to-die and serial bus communication between AI accelerators. It was co-developed by Alibaba, AMD, Apple, Astera Labs, AWS…
…Known for its ancient temples and pagodas, Hangzhou was also a burgeoning tech hub and home to Alibaba i Alibaba Alibaba, founded in 1999 by Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma, is one of…
…Innovation Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university…
…Kyle Miller, a senior research analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, made a similar point, citing Alibaba’s large family of Qwen open-weight AI models in China…
…Apple's AI Partnership With Alibaba Draws Scrutiny From Washington The Trump administration is scrutinizing Apple's partnership with Chinese tech giant Alibaba to bring AI features to iPhones in China, according…
…Kevork Kechichian, who runs Intel's Data Center Group and served as executive vice president of Arm's Solutions Engineering team until last summer, isn't so sure this "new" kind of…
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…In the top 20 spots are models from heavy hitters like Google and China’s ByteDance and Alibaba. Rather than asking developers to bet on a single model staying ahead, Media Router…