China’s Baidu has successfully “illuminated” a cluster comprising 30,000 of its self-developed, third generation P800 Kunlun chips, which can support the training of DeepSeek-like models, its CEO said on Friday. Robin Li made the announcement at the company’s annual developer conference where the Chinese search engine giant is giving updates on its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. “Illuminated” means switching the cluster on and preparing it for training tasks.
The P800 cluster can support the training of
DeepSeek-like models with hundreds of…