China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked companies including Alibaba Group and ByteDance to report their plans to purchase Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500 chips, according to two people familiar with the matter. The ministry has indicated to some Chinese companies that the government intends to approve the purchases. The move comes as China's AI firms are straining for enough computing power to run their chatbots and agents. However, it remains unclear when approvals would come, how many chips officials would allow, and what standards would be used to decide.
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