ByteDance’s enterprise cloud service, Volcengine, has cut the training period for an image-recognition, artificial intelligence (AI) model from 5 days to 3 days; Alibaba Cloud’s Sinian computing platform has beat a Google -held record by recognising 1.078 million images per second in offline scenarios; and China’s largest server maker Inspur’s NF5488A5 model has been hailed as a world-class product in medical image segmentation, speech recognition and natural language processing. But none of these achievements by China’s most powerful technology players would be possible without the powerful graphic processing units provided by Nvidia Corp, the Santa Clara-based GPU giant that has...