Top Chinese companies are training their artificial intelligence models overseas to access Nvidia’s chips and bypass US efforts to prevent their development of the powerful technology. Alibaba and ByteDance are among the tech groups training their latest large language models in data centres across south-east Asia, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. These people said there had been a steady increase in training in offshore locations after the Trump administration moved in April to restrict sales of the H20, Nvidia’s China-only semiconductors. “It’s an obvious choice to come here,” said one Singapore-based data centre operator. “You need the best chips to train the most cutting-edge models and it’s all legally compliant.” Over the past year, Alibaba’s Qwen and ByteDance’s Doubao models have become among the top-performing LLMs worldwide.

Full report : Chinese big tech companies like Alibaba and ByteDance are training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia’s AI chips.