Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen!
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China's leading AI models were trained on Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, which are banned from export to China, indicating a potential loophole in U.S. export controls that allows Chinese firms to access restricted chips via offshore data centers, such as those in Malaysia, complicating efforts to maintain the U.S. tech edge.
Top Chinese open-weight models show training fingerprints from Nvidia Blackwell GPUs that are banned for China, with offshore routes such as Malaysia undermining shipment-based export controls. For teams shipping LLM products, expect tighter end-user and workload-level controls on frontier GPU access, more compliance checks from cloud/colo providers, and potential capacity or cost pressure if regulators close the offshore compute loophole.