{"id":176577,"date":"2023-11-23T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/us-chip-export-ban-is-hurting-chinas-ai-startups-not-so-much-the-giants-yet"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:25:00","slug":"us-chip-export-ban-is-hurting-chinas-ai-startups-not-so-much-the-giants-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/us-chip-export-ban-is-hurting-chinas-ai-startups-not-so-much-the-giants-yet","title":{"rendered":"US chip export ban is hurting China\u2019s AI startups, not so much the giants yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-chip-export-ban-is-hurting-chinas-ai-startups-not-so-much-the-giants-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well before Washington banned Nvidia\u2019s exports of high-performance graphic processing units to China, the country\u2019s tech giants had been hoarding them in anticipation of an escalating tech war between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>Baidu, one of the tech firms building China\u2019s counterparts to OpenAI, has secured enough AI chips to keep training its ChatGPT equivalent Ernie Bot for the \u201cnext year or two,\u201d the firm\u2019s CEO Robin Li said on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/earnings\/call-transcripts\/2023\/11\/21\/baidu-bidu-q3-2023-earnings-call-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earnings call<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, inference requires less powerful chips, and we believe our chip reserves, as well as other alternatives, will be sufficient to support lots of AI-native apps for the end users,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd in the long run, having difficulties in acquiring the most advanced chips inevitably impacts the pace of AI development in China. So, we are proactively seeking alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well before Washington banned Nvidia\u2019s exports of high-performance graphic processing units to China, the country\u2019s tech giants had been hoarding them in anticipation of an escalating tech war between the two nations. Baidu, one of the tech firms building China\u2019s counterparts to OpenAI, has secured enough AI chips to keep training its ChatGPT equivalent Ernie [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}