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They do manage to get smuggled GPUs, but last time I checked, the prices of top GPUs was 5-10x in China, compared to what it should be.

And overall, the controls on sales are being expanded.

The simpler option for them realistically, is not so much that they buy the latest GPUs, but rather that they manage to use them on western cloud services.

The US is looking to track money flows in greater detail to see if funds are ultimately coming from China, but that's some majorly invasive stuff, and not entirely easy to implement on the scale of the planet.

Once you have trained models, inference is almost always less of a hassle.