Land Enterprise Boss Admits to Illegally Smuggling Nvidia Graphics Cards, Video Reveals

Beijing – A company owner in Beijing recently released a video publicly showcasing the “smuggling” of NVIDIA graphics cards, which are high-tech products banned by the U.S. government from being exported to China for training various artificial intelligence models. The owner admitted to violating U.S. laws and revealed that a friend who helped him smuggle NVIDIA graphics cards has been placed on the U.S. blacklist twice.

In a series of videos posted on social media platforms, Kunlun Nest founder Su Fen showcased a batch of NVIDIA graphics cards obtained through illegal means. In one of the videos, Su Fen introduced a legendary NVIDIA H100 graphics card, highlighting its significance in the explosive growth of AI due to its breakthrough technology and computing power surpassing that of the NVIDIA RTX4090 graphics card.

The NVIDIA H100 graphics card, unveiled in March 2022, utilizes TSMC’s 4-nanometer technology and features the new Hopper architecture. Since its market introduction, the chip has become one of the most popular AI training chips.

In another video, Su Fen introduced the NVIDIA H200 graphics card, currently one of the most expensive graphics cards in the market. He unboxed one of the 200 units that had just arrived and planned to showcase the unboxing process.

Su Fen acknowledged the illegal nature of his actions, recognizing that it violates U.S. laws and could anger figures like Trump. He mentioned the involvement of his friends who have helped him obtain these graphics cards, noting that they have been blacklisted by the U.S. twice.

The H200 mentioned is a new generation data center GPU chip released by NVIDIA in November 2023, incorporating advanced storage technology HBM3e, showcasing unprecedented performance on popular generative AI models.

In response to Su Fen’s public display of smuggling NVIDIA graphics cards, Chinese netizens on Weibo commented, calling the act foolish and showing disregard for the law.

Previously, Su Fen has been featured in various state media reports and holds titles including Garage Coffee founder, You+ Apartment co-founder, and Kunlun Nest founder.

Su Fen did not disclose whether the illegally smuggled NVIDIA graphics cards were for personal use or resale to other Chinese companies, nor did he provide detailed information about his friend who was blacklisted by the U.S. twice.

Since 2022, NVIDIA products have been restricted in their sales to China due to U.S. regulations. Bloomberg reported this week that following the DeepSeek incident, the Trump administration was exploring further restrictions on NVIDIA chip sales to China.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released the R1 inference model on January 20, surpassing various U.S. open-source language models and operating at low cost without constraints from U.S. high-end chip sanctions. The news led to a Wall Street shakeup on January 27, causing NVIDIA’s market value to shrink by nearly $600 billion.

The U.S. company OpenAI recently informed the Financial Times that evidence suggests the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek utilized a distillation technique to train its models, potentially violating OpenAI’s terms of service by competing with proprietary models.

While distillation is a common industry practice, DeepSeek may have gone beyond standard practice, developing its models using OpenAI’s technology in competition, breaching OpenAI’s service terms.