AISN #19: US-China Competition on AI Chips, Measuring Language Agent Developments, Economic Analysis of Language Model Propaganda, and White House AI Cyber Challenge.
US-China Competition on AI ChipsModern AI systems are trained on advanced computer chips which are designed and fabricated by only a handful of companies in the world. The US and China have been competing for access to these chips for years. Last October, the Biden administration partnered with international allies to severely limit China’s access to leading AI chips.Recently, there have been several interesting developments on AI chips. China has made several efforts to preserve their chip access, including smuggling, buying chips that are just under the legal limit of performance, and…
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