Alibaba Rolls Out Zhenwu M890 AI Chip as China Expands Domestic Compute Push

Alibaba has unveiled Zhenwu M890, a homegrown AI accelerator that the company describes as its most powerful AI processor to date, as it tries to reduce reliance on Nvidia-class hardware and support a broader expansion of AI data-center capacity. The chip was introduced alongside Qwen 3.7-Max and a rebuilt cloud stack aimed at long-running agent workloads.