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AI accelerator at the center of the conditional-export versus domestic-purchase-block dispute.
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A new study says AI agents still fail at free-form research. The self-improvement story is the load-bearing beam under a lot of compute spending, and it just got a crack in it.
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Export controls walled off China's AI demand from TSMC and Samsung. SMIC, the only domestic route to 7nm-class logic, is now repricing the captive pool it inherited.
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ByteDance and Tencent have each taken roughly 10,000 accelerators against licence caps of 75,000 and January orders near two million. The constraint is paperwork, not fabrication.
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China's chip directive is a procurement decision the domestic hardware cannot yet honor. The constraint is not silicon supply, it is nearly two decades of software nobody has rebuilt.
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The French startup's only public number is 3,000 tokens per second on a 2-billion-parameter model. Its 30x claim for real LLMs has not been shown yet.
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