Alibaba partners with Nvidia for «physical AI» training software

Alibaba is massively expanding its AI research and reach, and is recruiting help from Nvidia.
Alibaba won’t say if they’ll use any Nvidia chips, but says they can help out with robotics. (Picture: Adobe)
Nvidia chips are as good as banned in China, but that doesn’t stop the internet giant Alibaba from partnering with the chip supplier — and see its stocks surge 10%.

Alibaba recently decided to «double down» on AI, according to this Reuters report, and promised $53 billion in AI infrastructure investments during the next three years – with even more coming.

Nvidia is slated to help develop physical AI functions like data synthesis, model training, environmental simulation and validation testing, Reuters says.

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