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Ban the H20: Competing in the Inference Age

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How inference scaling should change US AI strategy

A guest post by Venkat Somala. He previously served at the Special Competitive Studies Project, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and has held roles in product and data science in industry. TLDR: U.S. export controls targeting China’s AI capabilities focus primarily on limiting training hardware but overlook the growing importance of inference compute as a key driver of AI innovation. Current restrictions don’t effectively limit China’s access to inference-capable hardware (such as NVIDIA’s H20) and don’t account for China’s strong inference efficiency. While…

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