It´s not difficult to understand why the Chinese govt is not thrilled about the prospect of Chinese AI companies importing more US GPUs from Nvidia. Why help cement US hegemony in chip sales?
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The US compute advantage is real and massive. Yet, while compute is important, it is also not everything. Meta had a huge budget but didn't deliver much. DeepSeek and others show that high talent density punches way above its weight. I would not bet against Chinese AI companies, but we have to acknowledge that they will have compute disadvantages compared to their US peers for years to come. It's just silly to pretend otherwise.
And here's broken down by country. Note: this includes Chinese companies buying NV GPUs.
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