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Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle for AI push

Original: China’s Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push, FT reports

Tencent has leased around 100,000 chips from Oracle to boost its artificial intelligence development, the Financial Times reported, as picked up by Reuters. The deal suggests Chinese tech firms are turning to overseas cloud capacity to access computing power constrained by export controls on advanced semiconductors. The arrangement highlights how companies are working around US restrictions on chip sales to China, and it has drawn attention given the sensitivity of such workarounds.

Why now: It reveals a possible route Chinese AI firms are using to obtain computing power despite US chip export restrictions.

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