On December 4, a group of bipartisan senators in the U.S. Senate put forward the 'SAFE Act'. This proposed act seeks to impose a sweeping ban on the export of high-end AI chips, encompassing models like NVIDIA's H200, to so-called 'adversarial countries', with China being a prominent example, over the course of the next 30 months. The underlying goal is to sever China's connection to state-of-the-art computing capabilities.
