(London News) The Financial Times reported that Chinese artificial intelligence companies are using third -party to bypass US export controls to obtain high -end US chips (also known as chips), which exposes Washington's siege measures for the development of Beijing's cutting -edge technologyThere may be vulnerabilities.
Reports quoted multiple sources that Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies affected by US sanctions can use cloud service providers or reaching lease agreements with third parties to borrow high -end chips in the United States.Chinese subsidiaries buy these chips.
Two informed employees of China Voice Recognition Technology Company, iFlytek, revealed that the company supported by the Chinese government was sanctioned by the United States in 2019, but still rented A100 chips from Nvidia.
This chip played a vital role in developing innovative artificial intelligence applications and services.
Three senior staff of Chinese Face recognition technology company Sensetime said that Shangtang Technology bought prohibited components from the United States through the subsidiaries that have not included in the US entity list.Shangtang Technology was also blacklisted by the United States in 2019.
Some privately -held cloud technology companies are also channels for Chinese companies to obtain high -end chips in the United States.
Founded by the former staff of Nvidia and Alibaba, AI-Galaxy, headquarters in Shanghai, provides Nvidia A100 chip rental services in Shanghai.
The United States prohibited the sale of high -end chips and advanced chip manufacturing equipment to China last October.A executive familiar with the operation of HKUST News said: "HKUST Xunfei cannot buy Nvidia chips, but this is not a problem because it can rent chips and use other companies' computer clusters to train our data set (Data Sets)."
It is reported that the US export control to China has spawned more computer clusters supported by the Chinese government.A Zhejiang official said: "Some places (governments and enterprises) have also been constructing an artificial intelligence computing center to provide enterprises with cloud leasing services. This is part of the new infrastructure construction supported by national policy."
HKUST Xunfei did not respond to the financial Times' comment request.Shangtang Technology pointed out that the company strictly abides by various domestic and foreign trade regulations.
A spokesman for the US Department of Commerce refused to comment on individual enterprises, but pointed out that the Ministry of Commerce's Ministry of Commerce's Industry and Security Agency will actively investigate the behavior that may violate export control.
Experts point out that the US export control measures do not cover cloud service providers.A business giant executive of a business in China revealed that the company's US legal team originally had concerns about providing cloud services involving A100 chips, but finally judging that it did not violate export control.
