On March 13, ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, began assembling computing power using high-end Nvidia chips outside of China, aiming to compete with tech giants like Google and OpenAI. On March 20, U.S. prosecutors accused Super Micro Computer executives of illegally smuggling AI servers to China. By March 24, Alibaba announced the launch of its new AI chip, while customer testing of Huawei's new chip was progressing well. By March 30, Mistral AI raised $830 million to build a Nvidia-powered data center.
