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Circumventing Export Controls: The GPU Rental Loophole
This chapter explores how Chinese engineers are bypassing US export restrictions on high-end Nvidia AI chips through blockchain-based GPU rental services. It highlights the challenges of enforcing these regulations and the geopolitical implications of anonymous access to advanced computing power.
Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris
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In this episode:
- Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress.
- Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia.
- Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer.
- AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips.
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