US sanctions are promoting the pace of R & D in Chinese technology companies and seeking to develop cutting -edge artificial intelligence (AI) without relying on the most advanced chip of the United States.
The Wall Street Journal of the United States reported on Sunday (May 7) that after evaluating the research papers and interviews with relevant employees, the newspaper found that Chinese companies are studying some relatively small or not so powerful semiconductor equipment to buildExplosion -out -of -the -end AI performance technology.These companies are also studying how to combine using different types of chips (also known as chips) to avoid excessive relying on any hardware.
China Communications Equipment Supply Merchants Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., search company Baidu and e -commerce giant Alibaba Group, etc., are trying to use existing computer chips more effectively.
Researchers and analysts said that using these changing methods to catch up with American AI leaders is still a major challenge.Some experiments have made people see the development prospects. If this study is successfully advanced, Chinese technology companies may be able to overcome the dilemma brought by US sanctions and face the future restrictions.
Huawei and Baidu will not comment on relevant reports.Alibaba did not respond to the Request of the Wall Street Journal.
At present, the commercialization of models similar to ChatGPT is increasingly heating up. Companies around the world are urgently needed more powerful chips, and they are trying to use chips more effectively to lower the increase in surging AI development costs.
Chinese company employees, AI researchers and industry analysts said that for Chinese companies, a more critical issue is that US sanctions have made it difficult for themIn order to create a product of the benchmarking ChatGPT, these Chinese companies have quickly consumed their existing US chip inventory.
The U.S. Department of Commerce in October in October last year, it had comprehensive restrictions on the supply of chips to China. Since then, the Bayeng government has hinted that further sanctions may be imposed.
The sanctions implemented by the US government have caused Chinese companies to be developed by Nvidia, the most popular A100 chip in the AI development industry, and the next -generation version of H100 chip with a stronger calculation capacity launched by Nvidia in March this year.
Nvidia has designed a relegated version of the chip for the Chinese market, which are A800 and H800, respectively to meet the sanctions requirements.Both of these improved versions have reduced the communication capabilities between chips.
