# Alibaba announced Wednesday its new artificial intelligence chip would be three times as powerful as its predecessor.

*genai · news · 2026-05-20 · CNBC*

## Key points

- Alibaba's Zhenwu M890 AI chip boasts three times the performance of the Zhenwu 810E.
- The Zhenwu M890 features 144 GB GPU memory and 800 GB per second interchip bandwidth.
- Alibaba has delivered 560,000 Zhenwu chips to over 400 customers in 20 industries.
- Alibaba is preparing to release its next large language model, Qwen3.7-Max.
- Alibaba and China Telecom launched a data center in southern China using Alibaba's own chips.

**Companies:** Alibaba
**Countries:** China

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