Banned for China-based entities, high-end Nvidia H200 chips land in the country, alleged businessman brags how he smuggled them from US

Evading taxes and export laws have been a practice for years, but this time it has been allegedly violated for something entirely new and unique. A businessman has claimed that he has smuggled AI GPUs manufactured by Nvidia comfortably to China, while bypassing the requirement of an export license to do so. This has now created a massive sensation as well as alarm for the US federal government, and some action may be on its way.

According to reports, two dozen H200-based Supermicro servers with hundreds of H200 GPUs inside, were smuggled into China by a businessman, who is claiming that this was a unique way bypassing Department of Commerce's laws that banned such exports.

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A Tom's Hardware report has said that as many as 25 Supermicro servers, each with eight Nvidia H200 GPUs, amounting to 200 Hopper GPUs, have been smuggled from the US into China, by the businessman, which may not be enough to train any large-scale language model, but can still be used to initiate some researches and small-time development in Chinese institutions, or even for some startups who may be interest in utilizing the technology.

FAQs:

Has Nvidia developed AI GPUs?
Yes, NVIDIA has been developing some extensive AI GPUs, which are equipped with specialized hardware.

Does Nvidia have an AI model?
Does Nvidia have an AI model, including StyleGAN, GauGAN and others.