Top Chinese tech firms are training AI models abroad to access Nvidia chips and evade U.S. restrictions on advanced technology, Financial Times reports. Companies like Alibaba and ByteDance are using Southeast Asian data centers for training, with a surge in offshore training following U.S. restrictions on chip sales in April. Chinese firms lease non-Chinese data centers for training, except for DeepSeek, which works domestically and collaborates with Huawei on Chinese AI chip development. No comments from Alibaba, ByteDance, DeepSeek, or Huawei on the report. Nvidia declined to comment.

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