In a quiet corner of South Jakarta, inside a new, windowless data centre squeezed between a private school and luxury apartments, sit around 2,300 of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips. Officially, they are part of an Indonesian telecom project. In practice, they will power artificial intelligence models for a Shanghai startup, highlighting how Chinese firms can still reach US technology without importing a single chip, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The chain that put those processors in Jakarta has spanned California, Shanghai and multiple regulatory grey zones. It has also underscored the tension between Washington’s desire to keep China away from cutting edge AI hardware and the tech industry’s push to keep selling its most valuable products.

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