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“Chinese tech firms purchase more than $35 billion of Nvidia chips: Reuters”
“Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have together ordered tens of billions of dollars worth of Nvidia chips as China’s compute-hungry tech giants turn to the US.”
Chinese firms ordered more than $35 billion in Nvidia chips, Reuters says
Key points
- Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent collectively ordered over $35 billion in Nvidia chips.
- The purchases occur as Chinese tech giants seek compute-heavy AI capabilities.
- The moves highlight ongoing US-China tech ecosystem entanglement amid export controls.
- Beijing has proposed AI export controls; the US has its own export curbs.
- A Moonshot AI researcher left China for the US amid global tech talent competition.
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