China’s AI Charge Part 3: Short on Chips and Talent

As China’s AI industry develops, companies are facing an imminent challenge — a lack of chips.

Co-founder and CEO Yin Qi of Megvii Technology Ltd., one of China’s top artificial intelligence (AI) companies, told Caixin in an interview in late March that there are only about 40,000 of chipmaker Nvidia’s data-center-grade A100 graphics processing units (GPUs) in China, the kind used to build large-scale machine learning infrastructure.