Alibaba unveils Hanguang 800, an AI inference chip it says significantly increases the speed of machine learning tasks –

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Alibaba Group introduced its first AI inference chip today, a neural processing unit called Hanguang 800 that it says makes performing machine learning tasks dramatically faster and more energy efficient.
The chip, announced today during Alibaba Cloud’s annual Apsara Computing Conference in Hangzhou, is already being used to power features on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites, including product search and personalized recommendations.
It will be made available to Alibaba Cloud customers later.
As an example of what the chip can do, Alibaba said it usually takes Taobao an hour to categorize the one billion product images that are uploaded to the e-commerce platform each day by merchants and prepare them for search and personalized recommendations.
Alibaba is already using Hanguang 800 in many of its business operations that need machine processing.
In addition to product search and recommendations, this includes automatic translation on its e-commerce sites, advertising and intelligence customer services.
Though Alibaba hasn’t revealed when the chip will be available to its cloud customers, the chip may help Chinese companies reduce their dependence on U.S. technology as the trade war makes business partnerships between Chinese and American tech companies more difficult.
It also can help Alibaba Cloud grow in markets outside of China.
Within China, it is the market leader, but in the Asia-Pacific region, Alibaba Cloud still ranks behind Amazon, Microsoft and Google, according to the Synergy Research Group.
Hanguang 800 was created by T-Head, the unit that leads the development of chips for cloud and edge computing within Alibaba DAMO Academy, the global research and development initiative in which Alibaba is investing more than $15 billion.
T-Head developed the chip’s hardware and algorithms designed for business apps, including Alibaba’s retail and logistics apps

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