The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants
Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country.
Three of China’s biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach some of America’s most advanced artificial intelligence. The trick is where they reach it.
OpenAI and Google have confirmed they supply advanced AI services to Singapore-registered subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, according to an investigation by the Financial Times. All three parent companies appear on the Pentagon’s “1260H” list, which names firms Washington accuses of ties to the Chinese military.
The sales are legal. That is exactly what has rattled Washington.
US export controls rest on two things: named entities and named places. Mainland China is restricted. Singapore is not. A Chinese firm blacklisted in Washington can register a subsidiary in Singapore, and...
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