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Gary Marcus 质疑 Nvidia CEO 黄仁勋与涉华情报风波中的出口管制判断

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Nvidia CEO 被曝与中国间谍交往,Megaspeed 还在拿 Blackwell 芯片,BIS 却不动,这瓜和信息量都太大

据 FT、NYT 和 Bloomberg 报道,美国情报界认定 Megaspeed 高管 Alice Huang 是中国间谍,其目标是说服 Nvidia CEO 黄仁勋游说美国政府放宽 AI 芯片出口管制。Megaspeed 被多方调查认定为帮助中国企业获取 AI 芯片或绕过出口管制的中国白手套,但至今仍是 Nvidia 的优选云合作伙伴,持续获得 Blackwell 芯片。BIS 今年允许 H200 出口中国,且未对出口东南亚的最先进芯片执行许可要求,今年东南亚 AI 芯片进口额达数百亿美元,马来西亚和新加坡跻身全球四大 AI 芯片进口地。Gary Marcus 质疑 BIS 为何在收到情报后仍未收紧管制。

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Could Jensen’s judgement in this have been any worse? Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far: - The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT) - Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg) - The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT) - The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT) - Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia. - Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia. - Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia. - Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world. What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point. The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers. 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 3 🔄 0 ❤️ 6 👀 889 📊 2 ⚡