TNB Tech Minute: Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip

0:00You're either all in on this model, or maybe you're building with another. You're either speed, or is it security? Or, you're AWS AI. Don't pick a side. Pick them all. AWS AI is how. Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, September 22nd. I'm Anthony Bansie for The Wall Street Journal. Alibaba has unveiled its most powerful AI chip yet, the Genwoo V900. The company's CEO said the chip's performance is three times better than the chip the company released just four months ago. Alibaba says it's committed to spending more than$53 billion over three years to add AI capabilities to its core e-commerce business.

0:44The Genwoo V900 is scheduled for mass production and commercial release in the first quarter of 2027. British Columbia is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for alleged safety violations in the Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting that killed eight people and injured more than 25, devastating a rural town in the province. The suit claims that OpenAI designed an unsafe product and accuses the company of negligence for failing to inform police of the shooting suspect's Chachibiti activity. An OpenAI spokesman said the company remains committed to working with government and law enforcement officials and advancing OpenAI's safety work.

1:23News Corp, the owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. And Andreessen Horowitz is funding an alternative to college. The venture capital firm is investing$35 million in an unaccredited San Francisco-based two-year alternative to traditional college for students age 16 to 22. The school, named the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, will operate as an independent business and be led by Goggin Biene, the co-founder of the education tech platform Udemy. Applications to the Academy will open this week for the founding class, who will begin a tuition-free one-year program in the fall of 2027.

2:01In 2028, pending regulatory approval, the full two-year offering will begin with tuition in line with elite private universities. That's your T &B Tech Minute. Join us again this afternoon for more. You're either all in on this model, or maybe you're building with another. You're either speed or is it security or your awsai don't pick a side pick them all awsai is how