Yeah honestly the Nvidia ban was stupid.

Everyone in the AI research space was saying it, but no, our old policymakers are captured by Altman, Musk and tech bros who would burn anything for their two years of pure anticompetitiveness.

The running joke is that the Nvidia ban was the best thing to ever happen to Chinese research, as it made them thrifty, while big US companies are lazily burning huge GPU farms scaling up and… not improving anything.