Alibaba Unveils AI Chip “Zhenwu V900”

China-based e-commerce and technology company Alibaba is expanding its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure with its new chip, the Zhenwu V900. Developed by the company’s semiconductor unit T-Head, the new processor delivers three times higher performance than the previous-generation Zhenwu M890, according to Alibaba. The new technology is designed for training and running large artificial intelligence models.

New Zhenwu V900 Chip to Be Used in Large AI Clusters

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu introduced the Zhenwu V900 as the company’s next-generation artificial intelligence processor at Apsara Conference 2026, held in Hangzhou. Alibaba announced that a single V900-based cluster can support up to 500,000 processors and can be used for both the training and inference of large-scale models.

The company is positioning this chip technology not only as a hardware product but also as part of a broader technology infrastructure encompassing servers, network infrastructure, artificial intelligence models, and Alibaba Cloud. Alongside the Zhenwu series, Alibaba’s data center product portfolio also includes Yitian CPUs, Panmai smart network interface cards, and ICN interconnect processors.

Alibaba Is Preparing a New Model With Up to 10 Trillion Parameters

In parallel with its hardware investments, Alibaba is also increasing the capacity of its Qwen artificial intelligence models. The company announced that it is working on new models ranging from 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters. The current Qwen3.8-Max model has 2.4 trillion parameters. The new models are intended to perform more complex and long-running tasks.

Alibaba has also committed to investing more than $53 billion in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure over a three-year period. The company plans to increase Alibaba Cloud’s global data center capacity to more than 20 gigawatts by 2032.

AI Infrastructure Is Growing in E-Commerce and Retail

Alibaba’s new chip and model investments also cover its e-commerce operations, the company’s core business area. As the company integrates artificial intelligence into the center of its commercial activities, it is expanding its own technology infrastructure across areas ranging from cloud computing and large language models to semiconductors.

Alibaba’s infrastructure also supports the development of the computing capacity required to run AI-based applications in e-commerce and retail. The company’s new investments bring together software and models, as well as the processors and data center capacity needed to run them, within the same technology ecosystem.