ByteDance Discusses Purchasing 50,000 AI Chips from Tianshu Zhixin for Inference Workloads

According to Yicai, on June 17, ByteDance is discussing a purchase of at least 50,000 AI chips from Tianshu Zhixin, primarily for large language model inference workloads. The chips would correspond to Tianshu Zhixin's Zhijia series cloud inference GPUs, while the company's Tianshu垓 series would be used for training scenarios.

If the deal closes, Tianshu Zhixin will become ByteDance's third GPU supplier after Huawei and Cambricon. Both ByteDance and Tianshu Zhixin have not yet responded to the report as of publishing.