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Alibaba has deployed 10,000 of its self-developed Zhenwu artificial intelligence chips in a new large-scale data center project, signaling a decisive step in China’s push to reduce reliance on U.S. semiconductor technology. The initiative, developed in partnership with China Telecom, represents one of the most substantial domestic AI infrastructure rollouts to date. The move places Alibaba at the center of China’s broader effort to build sovereign AI capacity amid intensifying global semiconductor competition. A STRATEGIC SHIFT TOWARD DOMESTIC SILICON The Zhenwu chips — designed internally by Alibaba — are being positioned as high-performance processors capable of handling large-scale AI training and inference workloads. …