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JD's Oxygen AI Item Center processes hundreds of millions of item updates per day across tens of thousands of categories on Huawei Ascend NPUs, managing inventory for 700 million users and billions of SKUs.

JD published details of Oxygen AIIC, an LLM/VLM-centric inventory system combining human-AI ontology engineering, self-evolving models, and a 'unified item tunnel' interface, running on domestically-sourced Huawei Ascend chips as part of China's tech-sovereignty push. ✦ AI generated

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Oxygen AIIC now covers tens of thousands of JD categories and processes hundreds of millions of item updates per day on Huawei Ascend NPUs

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