Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips
Alibaba and ByteDance shift development to south-east Asia to sidestep US curbs — Top Chinese companies are training …
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@kakashiii111
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Great scoop from Zijing, and a validation of the points I have been consistently writing about, and very bold on, for almost a year. In short, Chinese companies, mainly large and mega tech firms, have shifted from smuggling chips to essentially building their data centers, [image…
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@zijing_wu
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Scoop: China's tech giants take model training offshore * Alibaba & ByteDance lead the trend * DeepSeek stands out as it still trains onshore, working closely w Huawei etc to optimise & codevelop the next gen of Chinese AI chips and ecosystem https://as.ft.com/...
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@teortaxestex
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Typical FT exercise in how many different ways you can paraphrase «unverified rumors» But it makes sense. Not so much the Huawei angle (though obviously Wenfeng wants domestic compute, that's 1/4 of the argument for the effort) but that they want physical control of their cluster…
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@jukan05
Jukan
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Very interesting. China's big tech companies are renting data centers in Southeast Asia to train their AI models. DeepSeek is still optimizing and developing Huawei's AI chips domestically in China. For inference, they are increasingly relying on Chinese-made chips. [image]
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China's tech giants take AI model training offshore to tap Nvidia chips