Ant touts AI breakthrough built on Chinese chips


FILE PHOTO: Semiconductor chips are seen on a printed circuit board in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo

SHANGHAI: Jack Ma-backed Ant Group Co uses Chinese-made semiconductors to develop techniques for training artificial intelligence (AI) models that would cut costs by 20%, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ant used domestic chips, including from affiliate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Huawei Technologies Co, to train models using the so-called Mixture of Expert (MoE) machine learning approach, the people said.

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