China Telecom, a telecom giant in the country has introduced two LLMs which were trained by using domestically produced chips. This breakthrough for the company has occurred during the increase in US export restrictions on high-end semiconductors, specifically limiting access to companies like Nvidia which produce advanced processors.
One of the model is named TeleChia2-115B. This model consists of 100 billion parameters. The second model remains unnamed but contains a big number of 1 trillion parameters.
These models were trained by tens of thousands of Chinese-made chips. The achievement highlights China’s increasing ability to independently work on AI technologies and advancements.