Ant Group Cuts AI Costs by 20% Using Chinese and US Chips

Ant Group’s use of local GPUs, not Nvidia, cuts AI model training costs by 20%

The fintech affiliate of Alibaba said its Ling-Plus-Base model can be ‘effectively trained on lower-performance devices’.

Ant allegedly using US, Chinese chips to cut costs

Ant Group Co. Ltd. is using semiconductors from both China and the United States to minimize artificial intelligence (AI) development costs, CNBC reported on Monday citing a source.According to the so...

Chinese chips help Ant cut AI costs by 20pc

Bloomberg Jack Ma Yun-backed Ant Group used Chinese-made semiconductors to develop techniques for training AI models that would cut costs by 20 percent, according to people familiar with the matter. Ant used domestic chips, including from affiliate Alibaba (9988) and Huawei Technologies, to train...

Ant Group’s AI breakthrough: Cuts AI training costs by 20% using Chinese chips over Nvidia’s - Tech Startups

Ant Group, the fintech giant backed by Jack Ma, has quietly made a bold move in AI development—one that could shake up the industry. According to a report from Bloomberg, the company has successfully trained AI models using Chinese-made semiconductors […] The post Ant Group’s AI breakthrough: Cuts AI training costs by 20% using Chinese chips over Nvidia’s first appeared on Tech Startups.

Ant Group cuts AI costs by 20% using Chinese chips · TechNode

Ant Group has developed AI model training technology using Chinese-made chips, reducing costs by 20%, according to Bloomberg. The fintech giant used semiconductors from Alibaba and Huawei, along with a machine learning method called mixture of experts, or MoE, which splits tasks into specialized subsets for efficiency. MoE models, also used by Google and China’s DeepSeek, have gained traction amid surging corporate AI investments. Ant’s training…

Jack Ma's Ant Group Demoes Groundbreaking AI Chips as China Eyes Local AI Supremacy

Ant Group has used locally developed chips, sourced from Jack Ma-led Alibaba Group and Huawei Technologies.