The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Reportedly, they’ve built a ton of extra AI datacenters they don’t even use. I thought they were just misappropriating government funds, but maybe that was an intelligent strategy. I wonder if that’s enough to bridge the gap until they have their own silicon in mass production.
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What do you mean? The Chinese are known for government-coordinated megaprojects… They regularly build entire city districts pretty much over night. And it’s not really quick… They’ve been at it since almost 20 years. And I believe in 2016 they released their national 15-year plan to ramp up power plants and AI in order to become the global AI leader by 2030.
We can see how in the times before AI, they were able to build large Bitcoin farms quickly (before they banned it) and by today, their AI industry publishes quite some models, papers… So I don’t really see a reason to question this. Or is there anything I’ve missed?
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