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China shifts AI strategy to massive "super-nodes" as chip sanctions tighten

China shifts AI strategy to massive "super-nodes" as chip sanctions tighten

China's AI sector is moving away from competing on individual chip performance toward building sprawling "super-nodes"—systems that link thousands of chips together—as the dominant strategy revealed at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17.

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