Alibaba Group Names Chip Subsidiary After Notoriously Fierce Badger

Alibaba CTO says the “Ping-Tou-ge” (honey badger) has “great intelligence” and “isn’t afraid of anything.” (Image courtesy of a viral honey badger YouTube video.)

One of the biggest businesses in China is getting into chips, and not just any chips. The e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group wants to set up a new company to specifically build artificial intelligence (AI)_ inference chips, which it aims to have on the market by mid-2019.
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