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Despite numerous setbacks, ByteDance spent 85 billion yuan on Nvidia chips throughout 2025, marking a significant increase for next year, South China Morning Post reports . ByteDance is one of the biggest local tech players in the region, rivaling Tencent when it comes to AI operations. It was recently evaluated at a market cap of $500 billion, so this spending is part of its massive AI budget for 2026.
China is barred from receiving Nvidia's current-gen Blackwell products, but the Trump administration recently allowed the Hopper-based H200 GPUs to be sold to Beijing. Following this, the Chinese government even held meetings with its tech companies , including ByteDance, to carefully assess their inventory demands to permit these transactions.
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