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China’s AI companies are reportedly rationing the use of their services because they don’t have enough chips
Blame the U.S. and its export controls blocking AI chip sales to China.
Chinese tech firms are rationing the use of their AI services because of a lack of computing power, the result of a shortage of chips, reports The Information. One firm, the livestreaming platform Kuaishou, had to limit the number of people who could use the test version of Kling, its text-to-video model, to avoid running short of computing capacity. Chinese firms like Huawei are now working on developing domestically produced AI chips, but it’s still uncertain whether the industry can make high-end semiconductors at scale.
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