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The U.S. government has taken aggressive steps in recent weeks to choke China’s efforts to move ahead in AI while also boosting the domestic computing infrastructure for supercomputing and artificial intelligence. The ban cuts off China’s access to artificial intelligence chips and software originating in the U.S. The U.S. government hopes the ban will stall China’s quick advances in AI, which is a national priority.

Nvidia’s Enterprise AI software suite, which helps organizations write AI applications for vertical industries, is based on CUDA.

Chinese companies will be able to use CUDA 12 on older GPUs like the Ampere-based A100, but the AI applications will run slower.

The U.S. government has also cut off China’s access to the latest software tools for the development of cutting-edge chips.