That is their goal because they saw their restrictions had just made China accelerate domestic development instead.

mattnewton 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly what most AI researchers would have predicted, if you force like 30% of the worlds top ai researchers to use something other than CUDA, they’ll work on improving the tools for something other than CUDA.

It’s wild the same administrations would argue for restricting access to the US market for tariffs to strengthen domestic production, would not believe that severely restricting exports to the Chinese market would strengthen their domestic production

	▲	MBCook 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		You’re assuming rationality.

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FirmwareBurner 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

China would be stupid to stop the acceleration of its domestic development right now.

	▲	jpgvm 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		If anything I could see the Chinese government moving to blocking import of Nvidia and AMD accelerators as time goes on. They can't afford to right now but you can bet they want to.