Iluvatar Corex: Setting a new benchmark for indigenous, general-purpose GPU development

2025 WIC Distinguished Contribution Award

Growth Potential award-winning enterprise: Iluvatar Corex

Iluvatar Corex is one of China's leading providers of general-purpose GPU chips and AI computing systems. Guided by the mission of serving national strategic priorities, the company is committed to developing independently controllable, globally competitive GPU products. 

By advancing indigenous innovation and accelerating the build-out of a domestic industrial ecosystem, Iluvatar Corex aims to provide a solid computing foundation for high-quality economic and social development.

The company's general-purpose GPU portfolio includes the Tiangai and Zhikai series, which are recognized for their high performance-to-efficiency ratios, ease of migration, and broad applicability.

The Tiangai 100, officially released in 2021, is China's first fully self-developed, GPU-architecture-based cloud training chip manufactured using a 7nm process. 

The Zhikai 100, launched in 2022, marked the company's first cloud inference-oriented general-purpose GPU product. Through continuous iteration and innovation, Iluvatar Corex has steadily expanded its product portfolio, injecting robust computing power into industrial upgrading.

On the software side, Iluvatar Corex offers a comprehensive stack compatible with mainstream ecosystems, supported by a complete toolchain that enables "one-click" migration for users. 

The company has independently developed IXCCL, a distributed communications technology that significantly enhances high-speed interconnection across multi-node, multi-GPU environments, forming scalable computing cluster solutions based on its proprietary GPUs.

Its DeepSpark open-source community brings together hundreds of application algorithms and models, supports major domestic and international AI frameworks and provides a multidimensional evaluation system.

Leveraging its strong technical capabilities, Iluvatar Corex works closely with domestic software and hardware ecosystem partners to deliver end-to-end solutions. To date, the company has supported more than 450 AI model workloads, accelerating the deployment of AI across industries and earning broad trust and recognition from its customers.

Iluvatar Corex currently employs over 700 staff, with R&D personnel accounting for around 70 percent of its workforce. The company has secured more than 340 authorized intellectual property rights and has filed over 200 invention patents. 

It has received support from multiple national, provincial and municipal programs and has been recognized as a specialized and sophisticated "Little Giant" enterprise and national high-tech enterprise by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Looking ahead, Iluvatar Corex will continue to pursue a path of independent and self-reliant innovation with distinct Chinese characteristics, building computing engines that are more reliable, more efficient and more environment-friendly. 

By empowering digital transformation across industries, the company is seeking to contribute to the high-quality development of China's digital economy.

In 2024, the World Internet Conference established the WIC Distinguished Contribution Award to recognize individuals and enterprises that have made outstanding contributions in global internet-related fields. 

To date, 12 leading figures and 26 well-known business enterprises from around the world have received the award.

For enterprises, the award features three categories — Social Contribution, Innovation Breakthrough, and Growth Potential. 

The awarded companies span a wide range of sectors — including internet platforms, mobile communications, artificial intelligence, chip designs, energy and power and cybersecurity. 

Together, they depict a diverse and thriving internet ecosystem, encouraging more outstanding enterprises to engage in the development of the internet and to jointly explore the limitless possibilities of the digital future.