Chinese AI startup gets access to 2,300 banned Blackwell GPUs by exploiting cloud loophole — rents compute from Indonesian firm with 32 Nvidia GB200 server racks

Even though U.S. President Donald Trump says that Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips will not be sold to China, Chinese companies still find ways to legally get access to Nvidia’s latest GPUs. According to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal, INF Tech, a Shanghai-based startup developing AI for finance and health applications, gained access to 2,300 banned Nvidia AI GPUs operated by a company in Jakarta, Indonesia. This move may seem illegal, especially amid all the rhetoric from Washington,…