“Developing our own accelerators adds to the broader ecosystem of partners all building the capacity required to push the frontier of A.I.,” OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, said in a statement.
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.
The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find.