Alibaba Groupintroduced 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. Learn more in an interesting TechCrunch article: . 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 toAlibaba Cloudcustomers 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. Using Hanguang 800, Taobao was able to complete the task in only five minutes. The link for this article located at TechCrunch is no longer available. . The Hanguang 800 processor from Alibaba enhances the velocity and power optimization of artificial intelligence operations.. Hanguang 800, AI Inference, Alibaba Cloud, Machine Learning, Neural Processing. . Brittany Day
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