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Chips universities and DeepSec US-China confrontation fronts

Chips universities and DeepSec US-China confrontation fronts

US restrictions put pressure on China’s artificial intelligence system through interconnected loops, starting with the chips developers need, passing through university partnerships that allow knowledge sharing, and ending with a ban on buying or using models.

Despite the different tools of restriction, their effects may accumulate to slow down the development process and commercial expansion as competition shifts from controlling equipment to influencing knowledge production and corporate choices; at the heart of this path is a bet on prolonging American supremacy, countered by questions about the ability of restrictions to curb Chinese progress.

Chinese models will end one day, but it must be maintained for as long as possible, considering that restrictions on access to advanced chips to China are the main pressure tool available to Washington.

This tool affects the computing power upon which the development of artificial intelligence and the expansion of its services are based. The newspaper quoted Kyle Chan, a researcher at Brookings in Washington, as saying that the limited production of chips currently restricts China’s ability to compete in building artificial intelligence data centers outside its territory, while Chinese companies are preparing to expand their cloud and artificial intelligence services globally.

Chan links this expansion to an increase in chip supplies, as Chinese companies may then be able to offer packages that combine models, equipment, and possibly power.

In contrast, the United States faces obstacles in providing electricity to data centers, and the value of the time Washington gains depends on how well it can also address its internal difficulties.

Beijing opposes the excessive expansion of the concept of national security and the politicization of academic exchanges, arguing that restricting normal scientific exchanges also harms American researchers and institutions.

The decision to tighten controls on research links led to more than 80 actions to terminate partnerships at a number of American universities, some of which reduced their academic cooperation with their Chinese counterparts.
 


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