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Russia wants Chinese GPUs

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What happened: On May 21, Chinese news sources reported that the CEO of Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, intends to use Chinese-made chips to power its flagship artificial intelligence model, GigaChat.

GigaChat is a lagging Russian alternative to ChatGPT.

Our take: Sberbank is going to have to get...