Chinese AI Company Claims Huawei AI GPUs Are On Par With NVIDIA A100, Will Compete With GPT-4 LLM In 2024

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Chinese AI firm, HKUST Xunfei, claims that Huawei has AI GPUs that are on par with NVIDIA's A100 & they will have an LLM that competes with GPT-4.

During the Chinese Entrepreneurs Forum 2023, Liu Qingfeng, the founder of HKUST Xunfei (a Chinese AI firm) unveiled that he's been working with Huawei to accelerate AI.

Liu claimed that they are working with other Chinese AI solutions providers. With them, Huawei has now developed a GPU whose capabilities in AI performance are on par with NVIDIA's A100 GPU. No specific numbers or specifications are provided for this GPU but it is said that the hardware will be very capable and can run large language models such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 with lots of performance at hand.

At the moment, the NVIDIA A100 is only the second-best AI GPU on the market with the top spot going to the Hopper H100 which is in huge demand. The A100 offers 624 TOPs of INT8 compute while the H100 offers 2000 TOPs. If the claim is true, then it is possible that the Chinese market might shift some of its AI demand to domestic GPUs but that remains to be seen. China is one of the largest consumers of AI GPUs from NVIDIA where chips are being sold for huge profits due to incredibly strong demand.

I am very happy to tell you that Huawei's GPU capability is now the same as that of Nvidia A100. Ren Zhengfei attaches great importance to it, and three directors of Huawei have worked in the special class of iFlytek of HKUST, and now they have achieved the standard of Nvidia's A100.

Liu Qingfeng (Founder & Chairman of HKUST Xunfei)

In addition to the hardware, HKUST Xunfei is also claimed to unveil a new general-purpose and large language model by October 24th. This LLM is designed to compete with ChatGPT and will launch in both