Very? Unless you're doing it as part of some CIA operation and even then you better hope you can prove it.

Considering the Trump admin flipflopped between

- we can't allow China access to buy or lease any GPUs

and

- turns out China is half the customer base, so cutting them off will crash the market, and the Chinese will just build their own anyways

Considering Trump & Jensen traveled to China just to sell more GPUs and despite that the CCP banned Chinese companies from importing Western Hardware in favor of domestic alternatives, I have my doubts this story makes sense

Which domestic alternatives?

Huawei Ascend and Atlas

https://tech-insider.org/huawei-ascend-950pr-ai-chip-nvidia-...

Interesting! If they have this, why are the Chinese labs still so compute-limited (hence relying on distillation instead of training from scratch), and why do they seem to want Nvidia chips so badly?

Everyone, including the Chinese labs, seem to understand that Huawei's chips are not as capable as their press releases make them out to be.

Also, for what it's worth, tech-insider.org is an embarrassingly lazy AI-generated content farm: https://tech-insider.org/about/

I would hazard a guess that Huawei is paying to get positive stories about their chips on the English-language internet, because they certainly aren't getting any organically!

They are not as capable certainly but considering they didn't have anything like 3-4 years ago, I'd say the potential to catch up is there.

Also like OpenAI's Jalapeno, with LLMs it might be feasible to deploy relatively simpler silicon that's hard to program for, and farm out implementation to AI so the CUDA moat might be shallower than before.

Up to 20 years in prison if you knew about it.

More likely would be large fines and possibly restrictions and audits of all future exports.

In this specific case, though, it probably depends more on the fallout between Huang and Trump.

I could easily see Trump pardoning him, but I could also see him getting thrown under the bus.

Presumably there is at least some faction in the Whitehouse out to get him. How else did intelligence wiretaps end up with the NY Times?

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Don't think people realize that whichever politician executes a tech CEO will likely become President for life. The public absolutely hate these people and blood is in the water. Democratic politicians know this, republican politicians know this.

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Depends on the size of the bribe to your government

So you're telling me Mr President knew about this and was fine as long as he got his cut?