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Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers
Where there's a will, there's a way.
According to the Wall Street Journal, four Chinese tech workers flew in from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur, each one carrying 15 hard drives with 80 TBs worth of data each for training an AI model. The Chinese AI company had previously used the same process to train its model using the Malaysian data center, with its Singapore-registered subsidiary signing the rent agreement. Although it seems that Washington’s sanctions are slowly starting to take effect with increased enforcement, the fact that Chinese companies take these steps to circumvent AI chip bans shows that the White House has got its work cut out for itself.
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