Alibaba Group’s Damo Academy unveiled the XuanTie C950, a RISC-V CPU for agentic
AI and inference computing, optimized for cloud use and customizable for
clients. The launch advances Alibaba’s all-stack AI ambitions, complementing
T-Head’s proprietary AI accelerators now in mass production, positioning the
company to compete with Nvidia and Huawei in China. CEO Eddie Wu confirmed the
strategy of building a full AI technology stack, including hardware.