Chinese city governments plan to offer “computing vouchers”, worth $140K to $280K, to AI startups, to try to level the playing field with China's tech giants
Chinese tech giants are hogging scarce cloud resources to develop generative AI models as US restrictions bite
One government official who works on data centre construction said the vouchers would reduce AI companies' computing costs by around 40 to 50 per cent if they opted for government-run data centres. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
China is taking steps to level the playing field for its AI start-ups, as the country's tech giants hog AI-training computing resources ...At least 17 city governments...pledged to provide “computing vouchers” to subsidise AI start-ups. https://www.ft.com/...