Overview

• Ant Group has reduced AI training costs by 20% by using a mix of Chinese-made chips from Alibaba and Huawei, alongside U.S. chips from AMD.
• The company's AI models, Ling-Plus and Ling-Lite, achieve performance comparable to Nvidia's H800 GPUs, showcasing China's growing AI capabilities.
• The Mixture of Experts (MoE) technique underpins Ant's cost-efficient AI training, enabling high performance with less powerful hardware.
• Ant's AI advancements are being applied in healthcare, with its models deployed across seven major hospitals in China to improve patient services.
• These developments highlight China's push for technological independence and innovation in AI, navigating U.S. export restrictions on advanced semiconductors.