China’s Tencent seems to have AI chips banned by US export controls

Chinese tech giant Tencent doesn’t seem to be affected by US export bans of computer chips that are crucial to the development of artificial intelligence systems – but even if such bans were more stringent, they may not be able to slow the country’s AI advancement.

Ritwik Gupta and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, have analysed publications released by researchers at Tencent about the firm’s latest models, including its Hunyuan AI models. The team’s findings suggest that, in recent months, Tencent has publicly described using…