China Weighs Allowing Purchases of New Nvidia Chips by ByteDance, Alibaba

China's government may permit domestic companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to purchase Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 chips. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has requested these firms to report their intended purchase quantities and specific use cases for the hardware. This move comes as Chinese AI firms seek more computing power for chatbots and agents. Some companies have been informed that the government intends to approve these high-end professional computer chip acquisitions.