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AI boss says chip sales to China ‘like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea’

Daniel Nenni

Daniel Nenni

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HACKEO-IA (AP)

HACKEO-IA (AP)
The chief executive of a leading artificial intelligence startup has labelled the US’s decision to allow the sale of powerful AI chips to China as “crazy”, likening it to selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the Trump administration’s move last week to approve Chinese sales of Nvidia’s H200 chip – the company’s second most powerful AI chip – had “incredible national security implications” for the US.

“We are many years ahead of China in terms of our ability to make chips,” Mr Amodei said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“It would be a mistake to ship these chips... I think this is crazy. It’s a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.”

Nvidia currently supplies Anthropic with its chips to power its artificial intelligence models, including its popular AI assistant Claude.

Mr Amodei’s comments comparing Nvidia to an international arms dealer come just two months after Anthropic and Nvidia announced that they were establishing a “deep technology partnership”.

On Monday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hasabis downplayed the threat posed by China, claiming that Chinese AI companies are about six months behind the leading labs in the US and Europe.

The tech boss claimed the industry-wide panic caused by the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model last year was a “massive overaction” despite being personally impressed by the technology.

“They’re very good at kind of catching up to where the frontier is, and increasingly capable of that,” Mr Hasabis said at the World Economic Forum.

“But I think they’ve yet to show they can innovate beyond the frontier.”

Under the latest agreement to allow the sale of Nvidia chips in China, customers must demonstrate “sufficient security procedures” and may not use them for military applications.

President Donald Trump said the deal would also limit the number of chips sold to Chinese customers in order to “keep America’s lead in AI”.

In a statement at the time, Nvidia said: “We applaud President Trump’s decision to allow America’s chip industry to compete to support high paying jobs and manufacturing in America.

“Offering H200 to approved commercial customers, vetted by the Department of Commerce, strikes a thoughtful balance that is great for America.”

ca.news.yahoo.com

AI boss says chip sales to China ‘like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea’

Anthropic CEO says Trump administration’s approval has ‘incredible national security implications’
ca.news.yahoo.com ca.news.yahoo.com
 
A very self serving statement because China will eat his lunch. China is getting the chips no matter what so let's cut out the crooks who are profiting from smuggling them in. Diplomacy please...... why can't we all get along?

Maybe Anthropic should work on streamlining their AI software like China is doing so it does not consume massive amounts of silicon and resources?
 
Daniel Nenni said:
On Monday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hasabis downplayed the threat posed by China, claiming that Chinese AI companies are about six months behind the leading labs in the US and Europe.
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What is he smoking? Which European lab is six months ahead Chinese lab?


Daniel Nenni said:
The tech boss claimed the industry-wide panic caused by the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model last year was a “massive overaction” despite being personally impressed by the technology.

“They’re very good at kind of catching up to where the frontier is, and increasingly capable of that,” Mr Hasabis said at the World Economic Forum.

“But I think they’ve yet to show they can innovate beyond the frontier.”
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The methods and technique about how to train AI models more efficiently on papers released by Deepseek，are very innovative，that is a consensus in the AI academic community
 
Looks like China is biting - green light for H200 sales, even with the 25% tariff

China Tells Alibaba, Tech Firms to Ready Nvidia H200 Orders​


January 23, 2026 at 6:40 AM PST
Chinese officials have told the country’s largest tech firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. they can prepare orders for Nvidia Corp.’s H200 AI chips, suggesting Beijing is close to formally approving imports of components essential to powering artificial intelligence.

Regulators have recently granted in-principle approval for Alibaba, Tencent Holdings Ltd. and ByteDance Ltd. to move to the next stage of preparations for purchases, people familiar with the matter said. The companies are now cleared to discuss specifics such as the amounts they would require, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private talks. Beijing will encourage companies to buy a certain amount of domestic chips as a condition for approval, according to the people, though no exact number has been set.
 
tonyget said:
The methods and technique about how to train AI models more efficiently on papers released by Deepseek，are very innovative，that is a consensus in the AI academic community
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A few key changes to your thoughts here:
* Not just training - In fact, the methods they used to make inference more efficient might be even more innovative - multi-headed self-attention with optimized disaggregated prefill and decode.
* Not just in the research community - commercially used software, like vLLM, SGLang and Tensor TRT-LLM inference model servers, and upstream AI data center optimization platforms like Dynamo have already adopted most of DeepSeeks innovation from last year.
* There are plenty more optimizations to come in both hardware (Rubin CPX) and software stack from DeepSeek's last year's seminal works, plus the interesting new one on hMC (Manifold-constrained hyper-connectivity).
 
Daniel Nenni said:
HACKEO-IA (AP)

HACKEO-IA (AP)
The chief executive of a leading artificial intelligence startup has labelled the US’s decision to allow the sale of powerful AI chips to China as “crazy”, likening it to selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the Trump administration’s move last week to approve Chinese sales of Nvidia’s H200 chip – the company’s second most powerful AI chip – had “incredible national security implications” for the US.

“We are many years ahead of China in terms of our ability to make chips,” Mr Amodei said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“It would be a mistake to ship these chips... I think this is crazy. It’s a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.”

Nvidia currently supplies Anthropic with its chips to power its artificial intelligence models, including its popular AI assistant Claude.

Mr Amodei’s comments comparing Nvidia to an international arms dealer come just two months after Anthropic and Nvidia announced that they were establishing a “deep technology partnership”.

On Monday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hasabis downplayed the threat posed by China, claiming that Chinese AI companies are about six months behind the leading labs in the US and Europe.

The tech boss claimed the industry-wide panic caused by the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model last year was a “massive overaction” despite being personally impressed by the technology.

“They’re very good at kind of catching up to where the frontier is, and increasingly capable of that,” Mr Hasabis said at the World Economic Forum.

“But I think they’ve yet to show they can innovate beyond the frontier.”

Under the latest agreement to allow the sale of Nvidia chips in China, customers must demonstrate “sufficient security procedures” and may not use them for military applications.

President Donald Trump said the deal would also limit the number of chips sold to Chinese customers in order to “keep America’s lead in AI”.

In a statement at the time, Nvidia said: “We applaud President Trump’s decision to allow America’s chip industry to compete to support high paying jobs and manufacturing in America.

“Offering H200 to approved commercial customers, vetted by the Department of Commerce, strikes a thoughtful balance that is great for America.”

ca.news.yahoo.com

AI boss says chip sales to China ‘like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea’

Anthropic CEO says Trump administration’s approval has ‘incredible national security implications’
ca.news.yahoo.com ca.news.yahoo.com
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Comes across as a.dribbling halfwit.

Maybe thats his schtick
 
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