Reported 11 months ago
According to The Information, Chinese companies such as ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent are using cloud services from Oracle to rent NVIDIA H100 GPU computing power in the U.S., bypassing strict U.S. export controls, to train their AI models. Although the U.S. Commerce Department had plans to regulate identity verification for cloud computing providers to restrict risky entities like China from using resources for training AI models, opposition from various stakeholders has stalled the progress of relevant legislation, allowing ByteDance to train its AI models smoothly through renting computing power over the internet. Other Chinese companies, including Alibaba and Tencent, also seem to adopt similar methods. However, not all cloud service providers are willing to offer virtual computing power to Chinese clients via the internet, possibly to avoid future U.S. government investigations or controversies. If more Chinese companies continue to bypass U.S. restrictions by acquiring computing power through virtualization over the internet for training AI models, the U.S. government may take corresponding actions in the future.
Source: YAHOO