The Biden admin unveils a new chip export rule that gives 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China

US semiconductor industry warns move will aid competitors — The US is imposing expansive export controls on chips used …

Financial Times 2025-01-13

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r/singularity r on reddit
Joe Biden seeks to restrict access to AI tech for different countries.
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New US Rule Aims to Block China's Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World
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New US Rule Aims to Block China's Access to AI Chips and Models by Restricting the World
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
If you are located in a tier two nation, and meet the requirements for ‘National Verified End User’ then your GPU purchase cap over the next two years will rise from 50k to 320k. [image]
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
Qualifying as a Universal Verified End User will require meeting security standards, commitments to democracy, and commitments to human rights. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have both recently written in support of this. [image]
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
This is new, if you are part of the ‘international ecosystem of shared values’ regarding the development, deployment, and use of AI, then your base cap will double from 50k to 100k over the next 24 months. [image]
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
This is new, a carveout for ‘clearly innocuous purposes’. Any order less than 1700 GPU's will not require a license, and does not count against the national chip caps. This is probably a result of the backlash leading up to this. [image]
@tcarmody Tim Carmody on bluesky
There's a lot to criticize about the Biden administration's new executive order restriction exports on AI chips and model weights, but Nvidia's VP of govt affairs blatantly sucking up to the new Trump admin to change it in their favor is a sad sign of what's to come blogs.nvidia.…
@shakeelhashim Shakeel on x
The reaction to the new export controls makes it clear that lots of the companies who profess to be obsessed with helping American national security actually only care about their bottom line. A lot of misleading arguments getting thrown around — this from Nvidia is nonsense. [im…
@shakeelhashim Shakeel on x
as I wrote on Friday: you can argue that the costs outweigh the benefits, but there are clearly benefits here — and with the laser-focus on frontier models, it's very plausible that the costs are worth paying. [image]
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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration's Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule
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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration's Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule
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NVidia's official statement on the Biden Administration's Ai Diffusion Rule
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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration's Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule
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NVIDIA released a Statement on the Biden Administration's ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule. Seemingly expresses support for the previous and coming Trump Administration.
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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration's Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule
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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration's Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule
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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration's Misguided ‘AI Diffusion’ Rule

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