Bloomberg Details Web Of Chinese AI Companies With Smuggled NVIDIA Chips Linked To Alice Huang
The NVIDIA chips involved are banned in China.
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A Chinese company with ties to Alice Huang procured NVIDIA AI chips banned in the country, which were then installed at a Shanghai AI facility that also has ties to Alice Huang, according to Bloomberg. The publication says the documents it has reviewed for its report shows explicit evidence that there's a network of Chinese companies, which have managed to get their hands on NVIDIA chips that weren't supposed to be sold in China, with Huang at the center.
US officials believe that Alice Huang is a spy recruited by China's main intelligence agency to target NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The goal was apparently to learn more about America's AI plans and to get Jensen Huang to persuade the US government to let his company ship its more advanced chips to China. Before he stepped down as CEO...
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