Can Chinese silicon replace Nvidia? Here are 5 AI models trained on local chips

Chinese artificial intelligence models have become increasingly competitive with their US peers, but the country’s AI hardware still lags significantly behind. While domestic chips are now widely adopted for model inference, none of China’s top models are known to have been pre-trained on homegrown silicon. To understand this gap, it helps to look at the three stages of AI model development. First is pre-training, the most computationally demanding phase, where a model feeds