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Export controls are meant to keep advanced AI chips out of China. Epoch AI's analysis of trade and diversion data estimates that by the end of 2025, smuggling had nonetheless delivered China somewhere between 290,000 and 1.6 million H100-equivalent chips -- a median estimate of 660,000 H100e, roughly a third of China's total AI compute stockpile
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