Washington plans to block Chinese access to AI cloud services
The US is preparing to escalate its campaign to block Chinese access to AI by including cloud services among the technologies that require government permission before they can be provided to Chinese customers.sources, Washington is considering enacting rules that would require US cloud providers such as AWS and Microsoft Azure to obtain explicit approval before allowing customers in the Middle Kingdom access to services for training AI models.
The US Department of Commerce is said to be preparing to unveil these new rules within the coming weeks. However, the department was not immediately available to comment, owing to the July 4 holiday. If enacted, these rules would make cloud services subject to similar export restrictions that the US has already imposed on technologies used in AI processing, such as the GPU hardware used to accelerate key functions when training AI models.on the export to China of advanced chips used for AI processing.
These latest restrictions would seem to be aimed at closing off a loophole that has seen Chinese outfits banned from buying advanced compute hardware instead renting access via the cloud, asWhether these measures will have any significant effect remains unanswered.
While AWS and Azure both have cloud regions inside China, the infrastructure for these is operated by Chinese partner companies, as mandated by Beijing, and they are effectively walled gardens separate from either company's global infrastructure.
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