Buying an RTX 5090 from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US (www.techspot.com)

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[-] crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

What stops someone from reselling within the US. They didn't sign the agreement with Micro Center.

Something tells me this is the AI companies not wanting people to run local AI models in other countries.

[-] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

nah I think it's just to appease the Orange Ape. Other then China AI companies wouldn't care if people ran models in a different country, after all they would still make money just via different part of the bubble

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