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The Information and CNBC reported on 27–28 September 2026 that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology asked firms including ByteDance and Alibaba for purchase plans for the RTX PRO 5500—an 84 GB Blackwell workstation chip launched 14 September—and signalled intent to approve. ByteDance is said to be weighing on the order of one million units; Nvidia is said to plan China shipments from late December.
On 10 September 2026 Anthropic published a report on unauthorized distillation campaigns. The largest, attributed to Alibaba, generated 151 million exchanges (May–July) via ~3,500 accounts with a fixed prompt to extract Claude chain-of-thought for the Qwen family. Other campaigns involve Moonshot AI and DeepSeek; observed total is nearly 200 million exchanges.
At Apsara Conference 2026 in Hangzhou, Alibaba launched the Zhenwu V900 accelerator (3× M890 performance), clusters up to 500,000 accelerators, 5–10 trillion–parameter Qwen plans, and more than 20 GW of global cloud capacity by 2032.