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Industry
Alibaba AI finds 4 previously unknown superconductor candidates, verified in experiments
Alibaba Group Holding\'s research arm DAMO Academy unveiled an AI agent, Elements Clo, designed to discover superconducting materials. DAMO said the system identified four previously unreported candidate compounds and verified them in experiments. It said the model was trained on 125 million molecular and crystal structures and uses a specialised foundation model with 1 billion parameters. DAMO said it screened about 2.4 million stable crystal structures in 28 GPU hours and narrowed them to about 68,000 candidates.
AI & Enterprise
Alibaba unveils CPU for AI agents based on RISC-V instead of Arm
Alibaba has unveiled its XuanTie C950 CPU for AI agents, CNBC reported on March 24. The chip is designed for data centres and focuses on supporting inferencing to run AI models. CNBC said CPUs play an important role when agents perform multi-step tasks. Alibaba’s DAMO Academy said the XuanTie CPU can be customised for specific inferencing patterns, improving performance by more than 30 percent.
AI & Enterprise
Chinese firms roll out new AI models as Alibaba, ByteDance, Kuaishou step up push
Chinese companies including Alibaba, ByteDance and Kuaishou have rolled out new AI models, CNBC reported on Friday. Alibaba’s DAMO Academy unveiled RynnBrain, a robot model for understanding surroundings and identifying objects. ByteDance announced Seedance 2.0, which generates realistic video from text and can also use user videos or images. Kuaishou introduced Kling 3.0 for 15-second video and multilingual audio, while Zhipu AI and MiniMax presented open-source models.