2023-08-27 10:58:00
A company that develops Artificial Intelligence in China said that the Huawei already has AI GPUs that are on par with NVIDIA’s A100. The information was shared by Liu Qingfeng, founder of HKUST Xunfei.
According to the executive, Huawei has been developing AI chips with the same quality as NIVIDIA, and it is possible to run language models as powerful as those found in ChatGPT 4.
I am very happy to say that Huawei GPU capacity is now the same as NVIDIA A100. Ren Zhengfei – founder of Huawei – attached great importance to this, and three directors of Huawei worked with us […] and now we’ve achieved NVIDIA’s A100 processing standard.
If true, this shows that the trade war between China and the United States has made the Chinese accelerate the production of local components that may in the future become a problem for NVIDIA.
Currently, the NVIDIA A100 is the second best GPU for AI processing on the market, and it is on the list of chips that cannot be exported to China. The ban was published by the US government some time ago, and NVIDIA has been providing a “weaker” version to Chinese companies.
With Huawei achieving the same quality as the A100, most likely China’s AI companies will continue to forge ahead despite US sanctions.
In addition to talking regarding hardware, Liu Qingfeng also said that his company is ready to launch a new AI language model. The novelty should be presented in October and should compete with ChatGPT, being launched in Chinese and English.
For now, Huawei does not comment on the matter. Still, sources say that China has been engineering a large supply chain of 5G chips, SoCs for smartphones, and also GPUs for AI. Everything has been done to circumvent US sanctions.
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