Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+
TikTok parent, pushing global expansion, plans to tap Blackwell processors that are barred for export to China
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@wildebees
Wessel van Rensburg
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It operates five of the world's 50 most popular AI consumer apps by monthly active users. and arguable the current leading video generation model - SeaDance. Chinese companies are spending to access computing power outside of their own country, where U.S. export-control rules do…
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@justjoshinyou13
Josh You
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36k B200s is a lot. Equivalent to 90k H100s in flop/s, whereas I estimate Nvidia has exported ~400k H100e in licensed chips to China since the first export controls in 2022. And this is just one cloud deal.