What's strange in this discussion of chips and export bans is there's been zero discussion of cloud access, I guess networked computers are difficult for America's gerontocrats to understand.
I've rented H100s no problem on American servers and there's no KYC or anything, they let anybody do it.
OpenAi, Anthropic, etc have access to specialized network topologies from high profile relationships with cloud providers. I don't think you can get anything like that off the shelf.
sure but to do this at scale you need better control of the networking layer than they typically give you, and there will definitely be KYC at a certain point in the process
I mean, I thought the paranoia was about China making their own models with their own chips. If they're renting USA models via the cloud, that's "good".
You should really seek to actually understand an issue before you comment so arrogantly.
US authorities are ok with Chinese companies accessing GPUs in overseas DCs because those DCs will still be subject any US export controls. Right now, we don’t really care if Chinese companies are building tier-2 LLMs on US gear. If China invades Taiwan or frontier models approach AGI, we will shut down those Malaysian and Thai data centers overnight.
Traditional social norms are reversed online because there is no threat of immediate violence. Arrogance gets attention. Politeness gets ignored. Don't be so harsh. It's just how this generation communicates.
I've rented H100s no problem on American servers and there's no KYC or anything, they let anybody do it.