China said to allow Nvidia H200 chips purchases

 China plans to let some of its major AI companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek, buy a "small number" of Nvidia's H200 chips to alleviate a domestic computing shortage, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The outlet claims that domestic processors would be given priority for inference and that the Nvidia chips would only be able to train on public data. The government is still deciding how many Nvidia chips to authorize for purchase, possibly fewer than 200,000 in total, and the corporations must specify how many chips they require and why.

Earlier, the US authorized Nvidia to sell its second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, to approved Chinese buyers with strict conditions. However, China has heavily restricted its tech giants from purchasing Nvidia AI chips.

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