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It's not that a single GPU is a national security issue (although the law treats it like such). It's that selling MILLIONS of GPUs is a national security issue
by SR2Z 2y ago
It's not that a single GPU is a national security issue (although the law treats it like such).
It's that selling MILLIONS of GPUs is a national security issue.
Enforcing the first is a fool's errand, but the second one is much more doable.
- tzs 2y agoEven if they can limit exports to only a handful of GPUs is that sufficient? My understanding is that what those countries want them for is AI training. Once a model is trained using the model can be done on much less powerful hardware. So instead of trying to set up sham companies that they indirectly control to buy and sneak GPUs out of the county, how about setting up a sham startup in the US that they indirectly control in some field that needs AI, have it buy a ton of GPUs, and then have it use some of those resources to run training jobs for them?