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Anton Shilov

Chinese AI Firm Stockpiled 18 Months of Nvidia GPUs Before Export Ban

Nvidia Hopper H100 GPU and DGX systems.

01.AI, a China-based artificial intelligence startup, has embarked on a shopping spree and procured enough AI GPUs from Nvidia to keep growing for 18 months, its founder Kai-Fu Lee told Bloomberg in a brief interview. This was a smart move, as the U.S. has just restricted exports of these GPUs to China. 

"We have stockpiled a lot of Nvidia chips," said Lee.

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