Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies have replaced key physical equipment formerly subject to US sanctions with rented cloud facilities. In this respect informs Financial Times edition.
At the end of last year, the United States banned the supply of equipment to China for the manufacture of chips, as well as components for the assembly of supercomputers used to build and train neural networks. Especially common “super graphics cards” Nvidia A100 came under the sanctions.
Citing Chinese AI companies iFlytek and SenseTime, the Financial Times writes that China is quickly learning to circumvent established restrictions. Faced with a hardware purchase ban, AI companies have started renting capacity from cloud providers that have access to the same NVIDIA A100s. According to iFlytek, such a program costs a little more than buying your own equipment, but it still pays off.
It is noteworthy that the number of such cloud providers in China has increased rapidly since the autumn of 2022. Many are opened privately with government support to create a surplus of necessary equipment. In some cases, technology is literally bought from providers by AI companies.
In the USA, oddly enough, he is not against such a scheme. According to the Financial Times, initially American cloud providers were wary of an avalanche from China, but later, after analyzing the situation, they realized that such a partnership with China was not in violation of US export restrictions.
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