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Tencent to lease 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in $7bn deal
Original: Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports
Tencent has agreed a roughly $7 billion deal with Oracle to lease 100,000 AI chips, according to the Financial Times. The arrangement would give the Chinese tech giant access to overseas computing power amid US restrictions on exporting advanced chips to China. The report has drawn attention to how Chinese firms are finding workarounds through foreign cloud providers, and to Oracle's growing role in the AI infrastructure race.
Why now: It highlights how Chinese companies are securing AI computing power through foreign cloud deals despite US export controls, a sensitive and consequential development for the tech and chip sectors.
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