ByteDance gets access to top Nvidia AI chips

TIKTOK'S CHINESE PARENT, ByteDance, is assembling computing power with top Nvidia chips outside China to drive its artificial intelligence effortsglobally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

- REUTERS March 13

ByteDance is working with Southeast Asian firm Aolani Cloud to deploy about 500 Nvidia Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia, totaling roughly 36,000 B200 chips, the WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The hardware build-out would likely cost more than $2.5 billion, the WSJ reported, adding that Aolani currently operates with about $100 million worth of hardware.