ByteDance acquires 36,000 Nvidia chips to boost AI outside China
Chinese company partners with Aolani Cloud for multi-billion dollar investment in Nvidia servers for artificial intelligence research outside China
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is assembling computing power with high-end Nvidia chips outside China. This was reported by sources in the Wall Street Journal.
The project in Malaysia
Bytedance is reportedly collaborating with a South-East Asian company called Aolani Cloud on a project involving the use of about 500 Nvidia Blackwell computer systems in Malaysia, totalling about 36,000 B200 chips. Aolani is reportedly purchasing these servers from Aivres, a company that assembles servers using Nvidia chips, the sources said.
$2.5 billion transaction
If all the deals are completed, the hardware involved would probably cost more than $2.5 billion. An Aolani spokesperson said that the company is currently operating with around $100 million in hardware. ByteDance intends to use the computing power for artificial intelligence research and development outside China, to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence from its customers around the world, according to reports.
