At WAIC, Huawei debuted the CloudMatrix 384 AI computing system, which uses 384 of the company’s 910C chips and is viewed as a direct competitor to Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 system. Industry analyst Dylan Patel said Huawei’s system could outperform Nvidia’s on some metrics.
Meta Platforms appointed Shengjia Zhao, a co‑creator of ChatGPT and former OpenAI researcher, as chief scientist of its new Superintelligence Lab. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Zhao will set the research agenda and scientific direction for the lab, which aims to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) and open‑source the results. Zhao joins other former OpenAI researchers in what analysts call a talent “arms race” between Meta and its rivals.