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Alibaba Group’s Damo Academy unveiled the XuanTie C950, a RISC-V CPU for agentic AI and inference computing, optimized for cloud use and customizable for clients. The launch advances Alibaba’s all-stack AI ambitions, complementing T-Head’s proprietary AI accelerators now in mass production, positioning the company to compete with Nvidia and Huawei in China. CEO Eddie Wu confirmed the strategy of building a full AI technology stack, including hardware.

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