Alibaba's AI Chip A Big Deal?
1. Alibaba's stock rose nearly 13%, reaching around $135 per share. 2. Q1 earnings showed significant growth in Alibaba's cloud business. 3. Alibaba developed a new AI chip for cloud service advancements. 4. The chip targets inference workloads, not competing with Nvidia directly. 5. Alibaba commits $53 billion for AI infrastructure over three years.