by Ireland Owens at Daily Caller News Foundation
The Biden-Harris administration’s controls on chips used for artificial intelligence (AI) may have allowed China to gain a strategic advantage in the global tech race, according to multiple reports.
Fears that China may have leapfrogged the U.S. in the AI race have been escalating after the Chinese startup DeepSeek made national headlines for rivaling similar models in the U.S., causing American technology stocks to plunge on Monday. During his term, former President Joe Biden introduced several export controls aimed at reducing China’s global AI influence by limiting the export of advanced chips to the nation first in 2022, and again strengthening restrictions in 2023.
The 2022 restrictions primarily focused on chips with a military application, but still allowed China to purchase H800 chips — which were designed to comply with U.S. export controls while maintaining a competitive technological edge for AI development — from major chipmaker Nvidia, before the U.S. introduced additional export controls in 2023, The Wall Street Journal reported. DeepSeek published a research paper in 2024 claiming to have used 2,048 of the advanced chips to train one of its AI models, according to the outlet. (RELATED: Trump Puts Kibosh On Idea For Fed Digital Currency With One Stroke Of His Pen)
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Several AI experts told Newsweek that Biden’s rules may have allowed China’s AI sector to pioneer with fewer resources, as DeepSeek was able to be trained in just two months for a price tag of $6 million, while the U.S.-based OpenAI likely spent upwards of $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing, according to numerous reports.
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