Iluvatar CoreX claims new GPU matches Nvidia H200 as China pushes AI

Key facts

• Iluvatar CoreX claims its Tiangai 300 GPU matches or surpasses Nvidia's H200.
• The company demonstrated the Tiangai 300's performance in multimodal AI tasks.

Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX claims that its new Tiangai 300 graphics processing unit (GPU) can match and even surpass Nvidia’s H200 in real-world AI workloads. The Shanghai-based firm showed the Tiangai 300 outperforming the H200 in complex multimodal tasks, including text-to-image and text-to-video, during a demonstration for mainland Chinese media outlets on Wednesday. The move highlights efforts by domestic players to close the technology gap with the US chip giant.