Rent a supernode by the hour - Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud, but only if you live in…
- Alibaba Cloud's Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance is now on commercial sale
- It offers rentable 64-card computing units built entirely on in-house silicon
- It marks the first time Alibaba has directly sold supernode compute through the public cloud, however availability is limited to the Ulanqab region in Inner Mongolia
Alibaba Cloud has begun commercial sales of its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance, letting customers rent a 64-card, high-speed interconnected computing unit without building their own data center.
The launch makes it the only Chinese-origin supernode that users can effectively use online without entering a purchase agreement or using a preconfigured AI model instance, an impressive enterprise-centric addition.
There is a caveat for enthusiasts looking to test it outside China: it is currently limited to users in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region only.
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