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How China Is Advancing in AI Despite U.S. Chip Restrictions
In 2017, Beijing unveiled an ambitious roadmap to dominate artificial intelligence development, aiming to secure global leadership by 2030. By 2020, the plan called for "iconic advances" in AI to demonstrate its progress. Then in late 2022, OpenAI's release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise--and caught China flat-footed. At the time, leading Chinese technology companies were still reeling from an 18-month government crackdown that shaved around 1 trillion off China's tech sector. It was almost a year before a handful of Chinese AI chatbots received government approval for public release.
Whack-a-Chip: The Futility of Hardware-Centric Export Controls
Gupta, Ritwik, Walker, Leah, Reddie, Andrew W.
U.S. export controls on semiconductors are widely known to be permeable, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) steadily creating state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) models with exfiltrated chips. This paper presents the first concrete, public evidence of how leading PRC AI labs evade and circumvent U.S. export controls. We examine how Chinese companies, notably Tencent, are not only using chips that are restricted under U.S. export controls but are also finding ways to circumvent these regulations by using software and modeling techniques that maximize less capable hardware. Specifically, we argue that Tencent's ability to power its Hunyuan-Large model with non-export controlled NVIDIA H20s exemplifies broader gains in efficiency in machine learning that have eroded the moat that the United States initially built via its existing export controls. Finally, we examine the implications of this finding for the future of the United States' export control strategy.
Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent
Sun, Xingwu, Chen, Yanfeng, Huang, Yiqing, Xie, Ruobing, Zhu, Jiaqi, Zhang, Kai, Li, Shuaipeng, Yang, Zhen, Han, Jonny, Shu, Xiaobo, Bu, Jiahao, Chen, Zhongzhi, Huang, Xuemeng, Lian, Fengzong, Yang, Saiyong, Yan, Jianfeng, Zeng, Yuyuan, Ren, Xiaoqin, Yu, Chao, Wu, Lulu, Mao, Yue, Xia, Jun, Yang, Tao, Zheng, Suncong, Wu, Kan, Jiao, Dian, Xue, Jinbao, Zhang, Xipeng, Wu, Decheng, Liu, Kai, Wu, Dengpeng, Xu, Guanghui, Chen, Shaohua, Chen, Shuang, Feng, Xiao, Hong, Yigeng, Zheng, Junqiang, Xu, Chengcheng, Li, Zongwei, Kuang, Xiong, Hu, Jianglu, Chen, Yiqi, Deng, Yuchi, Li, Guiyang, Liu, Ao, Zhang, Chenchen, Hu, Shihui, Zhao, Zilong, Wu, Zifan, Ding, Yao, Wang, Weichao, Liu, Han, Wang, Roberts, Fei, Hao, Yu, Peijie, Zhao, Ze, Cao, Xun, Wang, Hai, Xiang, Fusheng, Huang, Mengyuan, Xiong, Zhiyuan, Hu, Bin, Hou, Xuebin, Jiang, Lei, Ma, Jianqiang, Wu, Jiajia, Deng, Yaping, Shen, Yi, Wang, Qian, Liu, Weijie, Liu, Jie, Chen, Meng, Dong, Liang, Jia, Weiwen, Chen, Hu, Liu, Feifei, Yuan, Rui, Xu, Huilin, Yan, Zhenxiang, Cao, Tengfei, Hu, Zhichao, Feng, Xinhua, Du, Dong, Yu, Tinghao, Tao, Yangyu, Zhang, Feng, Zhu, Jianchen, Xu, Chengzhong, Li, Xirui, Zha, Chong, Ouyang, Wen, Xia, Yinben, Li, Xiang, He, Zekun, Chen, Rongpeng, Song, Jiawei, Chen, Ruibin, Jiang, Fan, Zhao, Chongqing, Wang, Bo, Gong, Hao, Gan, Rong, Hu, Winston, Kang, Zhanhui, Yang, Yong, Liu, Yuhong, Wang, Di, Jiang, Jie
In this paper, we introduce Hunyuan-Large, which is currently the largest open-source Transformer-based mixture of experts model, with a total of 389 billion parameters and 52 billion activation parameters, capable of handling up to 256K tokens. We conduct a thorough evaluation of Hunyuan-Large's superior performance across various benchmarks including language understanding and generation, logical reasoning, mathematical problem-solving, coding, long-context, and aggregated tasks, where it outperforms LLama3.1-70B and exhibits comparable performance when compared to the significantly larger LLama3.1-405B model. Key practice of Hunyuan-Large include large-scale synthetic data that is orders larger than in previous literature, a mixed expert routing strategy, a key-value cache compression technique, and an expert-specific learning rate strategy. Additionally, we also investigate the scaling laws and learning rate schedule of mixture of experts models, providing valuable insights and guidances for future model development and optimization. The code and checkpoints of Hunyuan-Large are released to facilitate future innovations and applications. Codes: https://github.com/Tencent/Hunyuan-Large Models: https://huggingface.co/tencent/Tencent-Hunyuan-Large