AI chip unicorn Cambricon joins hands with Inspur Group to promote AI innovation with Metabrain ecosystem

The current path of artificial intelligence is unstoppable. Through industry chain cooperation, China's innovation capabilities in world-class AI industry solutions will be greatly accelerated.

Recently, Cambricon, a domestic AI chip unicorn, and Inspur signed a strategic cooperation agreement on Metabrain. The two parties will integrate high-quality product and technology R&D resources to jointly develop the best domestic and world-leading artificial intelligence industry solutions, and use the power of the Metabrain ecosystem to accelerate the implementation of leading AI solutions and the construction of intelligent computing centers.

The signing of the Metabrain strategic cooperation agreement between Inspur and Cambricon means that the scope of cooperation between the two parties has been further expanded from product adaptation to joint development of artificial intelligence solutions for specific industry scenarios. Previously, Inspur AI servers NF5468M5 and NF5280M5 were adapted to Cambricon's Siyuan 270 and Siyuan 100 series of various intelligent acceleration cards, which can support a variety of artificial intelligence applications such as vision, voice, natural language processing and traditional machine learning, meeting the cloud-based reasoning computing needs of various scenarios. At present, they have been applied in many industries such as the Internet, communications, and AI computing platforms.

Since its establishment, Cambrian has been adhering to the concept of openness and working closely with upstream and downstream of the industry chain to jointly promote the ecological prosperity of the entire AI industry. Regarding this cooperation with Inspur, Cambrian Vice President Liu Daofu believes: "The ultimate goal of Cambrian's chip manufacturing is to support customers and developers in developing applications and building a complete ecosystem. The Metabrain ecosystem is a leading and outstanding industrial AI ecological strategy. This strategic cooperation with Inspur not only fits Cambrian's ecological strategy, but will also further empower Cambrian's cloud-edge-end integrated ecosystem. Cambrian will work with Inspur to contribute greater momentum to the entire AI industry."

Liu Jun, general manager of Inspur AI & HPC, said: "The addition of Cambrian will bring more diverse chip architectures to the Metabrain ecosystem, provide richer AI solutions, and meet the needs of AI users in more industries."

It is reported that both parties will also focus on the "new infrastructure" market with high growth potential - intelligent computing centers. As artificial intelligence is incorporated into the "new infrastructure" framework, intelligent computing centers that carry and supply artificial intelligence computing power will inevitably become one of the core infrastructures for social and economic operations.

The current demand for artificial intelligence computing is growing exponentially and will account for more than 80% of computing demand in the future. Intelligent computing centers are AI computing centers that carry this demand and will be the new infrastructure of the intelligent era. As artificial intelligence is included in the framework of "new infrastructure", intelligent computing centers that carry and supply artificial intelligence computing power will inevitably become one of the core infrastructures for social and economic operations.

Accelerating the implementation of intelligent computing centers requires the ability to develop a product system that supports the entire process of AI computing power, involving each operation link of production, aggregation, scheduling and release, as well as integrated and efficient delivery capabilities. At the same time, it needs to be supported by the continuous promotion of the ecosystem to leverage the strengths of each company.