{"id":622692,"date":"2026-09-21T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622692\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:56:17","slug":"in-focus-as-the-us-weighs-restrictions-on-cloud-computing-how-will-chinas-ai-sector-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622692\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus | As the US weighs restrictions on cloud computing, how will China\u2019s AI sector adapt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Chinese artificial intelligence developers want to train their next-generation frontier models, they all face the same daunting wall: they cannot legally buy the world\u2019s most powerful AI chips.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, the country\u2019s tech giants and start-ups have still managed to quietly keep pace with global rivals. Their secret is an elusive workaround: moving heavy training workloads across borders through the cloud.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">By setting up proxy entities in foreign jurisdictions, domestic firms have for years leased server space in data centres across Southeast Asia, Japan and the Middle East, according to a broker in Shenzhen who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under contracts signed by non-Chinese entities, models have been trained on cutting-edge Nvidia processors housed thousands of miles, away outside the reach of US authorities, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Chinese artificial intelligence developers want to train their next-generation frontier models, they all face the same daunting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,2939,7183,343,344,5560,204416,8164,1657,7926,85,46,12437,4136,9126,15020,125,12791,208,730],"class_list":["post-622692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-amazon-com","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-bis","tag-bytedance","tag-china","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-malaysia","tag-nvidia","tag-oracle","tag-southeast-asia","tag-technology","tag-tencent-holdings","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}