China AI compute supply chain draws scrutiny as local model platforms expand
China-linked AI compute developments centered on Nvidia hardware access, Huawei-related model infrastructure and new model-platform support.
• U.S. prosecutors accused Greg Lui of helping ship $300 million worth of Nvidia chips to China without approval for advanced AI development.
• A report described DeepSeek’s move toward Huawei as a relocation, highlighting Huawei’s role in the Chinese AI infrastructure ecosystem.
• Tencent WorkBuddy added exclusive support for Space Bunny, an anonymous Flash large model with multimodal inputs, adjustable reasoning depth and a context window of up to 1 million tokens.
• Nvidia said its 64GB DGX Spark will launch through major partners on Oct. 23 at $4,999, with OEMs including H3C also set to release systems based on the platform.
• Research cited by IT Home said DeepSeek’s V4-Flash maintained gender neutrality in a moral-judgment test compared with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5.