China asked Alibaba and ByteDance for their plans to buy Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 chip
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology asked them to report how many chips they want to buy and what they will use them for, two people told The Information.
China's government signaled it could allow some domestic companies to buy the chip, released this month for high-end professional computers, as the country's AI companies look for enough computing power to run their chatbots and agents, according to The Information.
Sources: The Information