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reasonableklout • today at 7:37 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

No, the AI compute supply chain is actually quite similar to the nuclear supply chain. Building chips capable of training or large-scale inference is extraordinarily complex, expensive, has a large footprint, and has a few chokepoints (rare earths mining, HBM manufacturing, and ultraviolet lithography, where there is literally one company in the world capable of building the relevant outputs) where we in fact already have governance mechanisms for things like export controls.