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TNB Tech Minute: U.S. Prepares New AI Chip Restrictions to Limit China’s Access

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus, messages show that Elon Musk wanted to make OpenAI a for-profit company he controlled. And Amazon union members vote to authorize strikes at two New York warehouses. Belle Lin hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.6

The U.S. is preparing rules that would restrict the sale of advanced artificial intelligence

0:30.9

chips in certain parts of the world in an attempt to limit China's ability to access them.

0:37.3

That's according to people familiar with

0:39.4

the matter. Some of the people said the regulations are aimed at halting China's access to

0:45.7

computing power housed in other countries. Still, they threaten to create conflict between the

0:51.7

U.S. and nations that may not want their purchases of chips

0:55.5

micromanaged from Washington. The purchasing caps primarily apply to regions such as Southeast

1:02.1

Asia and the Middle East, the people said, and the rules cover cutting-edge processors known as

1:08.6

GPUs or graphic processing units, which are used to train and run

1:13.2

large-scale AI models.

1:16.3

Elon Musk pushed for OpenAI to become a for-profit company that he would control before

1:23.6

leaving its board amid a power struggle in 2018.

1:27.3

That's according to internal company communications, the chat GPT maker released online.

1:33.4

OpenAI published the documents today in response to Musk's request last month for a preliminary

1:40.2

injunction blocking OpenAI from transitioning to a for-profit company.

1:46.1

Musk has argued that he was manipulated into believing OpenAI would be a purely non-profit

1:52.5

venture when he initially invested in it. Open AI said the documents show Musk, in fact,

1:58.7

previously backed the idea.

2:04.2

Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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