News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI

Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: Nvidia H200 exports to China; H20, H200 and Chinese AI chips: how do they stack up?;few fast GPUs vs. many slow GPUs; China’s power capacity dusts the West; cell-phone sized AI supercomputers; regulating AI

Personal ‘AI Supercomputer’ Runs 120B-Parameter LLMs On-Device, Tiiny AI Says

It’s often said that supercomputers of a few decades ago pack less power than today’s smart watches. Now we have a company, Tiiny AI Inc., claiming to have built the world’s smallest personal AI supercomputer that can run a 120-billion-parameter large language model on-device — without cloud connectivity, servers or GPUs.