Chinese artificial intelligence companies have formed two new industry alliances to build a domestic AI ecosystem and reduce reliance on foreign technology.
The alliances were announced during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, which ended Monday.
The “Model-Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance” includes Chinese large language model developers and chipmakers such as Huawei, Biren, Moore Threads, and Enflame.
These firms have been affected by U.S. export restrictions that limit access to advanced Nvidia chips. StepFun, an LLM developer, announced the alliance.
A second group, the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce AI Committee, aims to connect AI with industrial applications. Its members include SenseTime, StepFun, MiniMax, Metax, and Iluvatar CoreX.
The conference also featured new AI products. Huawei introduced CloudMatrix 384, a system with 384 of its 910C chips. SemiAnalysis said it outperforms Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 in some areas.
Other companies, including Metax, showcased systems using large numbers of clustered chips for data centers.
Tencent unveiled an open-source 3D model called Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0 that can generate interactive environments from text or images. Baidu launched digital human technology that creates virtual livestreamers using 10 minutes of video and voice data.
Alibaba introduced its Quark AI Glasses, which run on its Qwen AI model and are set to release in China by the end of 2025.
