| SenseTime and nearly 20 Chinese chip partners launch "Galaxy Plan" to co-build five 10,000-card AI clusters SenseTime and nearly 20 Chinese chip and infrastructure partners launched the "Galaxy Plan" at WAIC 2026 on July 18, committing to co-build five domestic 10,000-card AI computeComputeThe processing power used to train and run AI models, usually measured in chips, GPU-hours or FLOPs. clusters. Named partners include chip makers Cambricon, Huawei Ascend and Moore Threads and others, alongside infrastructure firms such as SiliconFlow, per SenseTime. SenseTime co-founder Yang Fan said heterogeneous mixed inferenceInferenceRunning a trained AI model to answer a query, as distinct from training it. Inference is where most ongoing compute and energy demand now sits, and it is what chip export rules increasingly target alongside training., blending chips from multiple domestic vendors in one deployment, lifted chip utilization on mainstream Chinese silicon between 85% to 152%. Yang said the setup delivered 1.25 times the inference cost-performance of Nvidia H-series accelerators, and SenseTime's platform now serves 2.42 trillion tokens per day, on track for 10 trillion by Q4 2026. |