Zhong Guo Jing Ying Bao·2026-01-29 03:47Core Insights - Alibaba's chip company, PingTouGe, has launched a high-end AI chip named "Zhenwu 810E," marking a significant step in its AI strategy and the formation of the "Tongyun Ge" AI supercomputer with Alibaba Cloud and Tongyi Lab [1][2] - The "Zhenwu" PPU has been deployed in multiple clusters on Alibaba Cloud, serving over 400 clients, showcasing PingTouGe's capabilities in the chip sector [2] - Alibaba and Google are currently the only two companies globally with top-tier capabilities across large models, cloud, and chip technologies [3] Group 1 - The "Zhenwu" PPU features a self-developed parallel computing architecture and inter-chip communication technology, with 96G HBM2e memory and a bandwidth of 700 GB/s, suitable for AI training, inference, and autonomous driving [7] - The performance of the "Zhenwu" PPU surpasses Nvidia's A800 and mainstream domestic GPUs, comparable to Nvidia's H20, and the upgraded version outperforms Nvidia's A100 [7] - The launch of the "Zhenwu" PPU is part of Alibaba's 17-year strategic investment and vertical integration in AI, which includes Alibaba Cloud, PingTouGe, and the Qianwen model [2][7] Group 2 - The chip concept is closely tied to Alibaba's market valuation, with recent news of PingTouGe's potential independent listing leading to a market capitalization increase of approximately HKD 100 billion in two days [8] - The Qianwen flagship reasoning model, Qwen3-Max-Thinking, has set multiple global records, demonstrating performance comparable to GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro [7] - The Qianwen open-source model has seen over 200,000 derivative models and more than 1 billion downloads, maintaining its position as the largest in the world [7]