01.AI founder Kai-Fu Lee told Bloomberg: "We have stockpiled a lot of Nvidia chips," said in an interview with Bloomberg.

"The jury is out on whether China in 1.5 years can make equivalent or nearly as good chips. We will have two parallel universes. Americans will supply their products and technologies to the US and other countries, and Chinese companies will build for China and whoever else uses Chinese products. The reality is that they will not compete very much in the same marketplace."