System: Master Your Life-Chapter 731 - 185: An Encounter in North America, Pei Danqing Pays a Visit and Plans to Purchase a Private Island

Chapter 731: Chapter 185: An Encounter in North America, Pei Danqing Pays a Visit and Plans to Purchase a Private Island

One of Xu Lin’s purposes for going abroad this time is to buy high-performance GPUs.

For this kind of GPU, the first choice is NVIDIA H100.

Moreover, Xu Lin needs it for large-scale models, which is why he needs to go abroad.

Because he wants to buy in bulk, foreign countries have restrictions on the export of such GPUs to domestic, you can only buy the next tier H800.

But if Xu Lin is abroad, he can find connections to directly get H100.

The performance goes full throttle.

Xu Lin checked and found that this type of H100 GPU is subject to export restrictions, personal purchase is not easy.

You need to register a company or use some research institution’s name, and then rely on specific qualifications to purchase.

It’s quite troublesome.

Xu Lin pondered that if he went directly to ask, it would be very troublesome.

It’s best if there’s a connection.

Abroad, he only knows Tilin for now.

So after dinner, Xu Lin made a call to Tilin.

"Do you have the number of the distributor responsible for NVIDIA here?"

"What do you want to do?"

Tilin asked curiously.

"I plan to buy a batch of high-performance GPUs, the first batch estimated at twenty million US dollars."

H100 is not cheap, the unit price of liquid-cooled H100 is about forty thousand US dollars, Xu Lin’s twenty million US dollars can only buy over 500 H100s.

So why can artificial intelligence only be played by large companies and big institutions?

Because 500 high-performance GPUs might not even be enough to train a few times, the rest is a bottomless pit.

"I can have someone introduce you to the head of the local distributor."

Tilin said, "But are you buying personally or as an institution/company?"

"Personal."

"Personal will be a bit difficult!"

"Get to the point."

Apparently Tilin had more to say.

Tilin smiled and replied, "But with me, it’s not a big problem, hang up first, wait for my call!"

Ten minutes later.

Tilin’s call came.

She laughed, "I’ve introduced someone to you, when do you want to meet?"

"Hopefully tonight."

"Alright, then meet tonight!"

"You seem quite powerful."

Xu Lin couldn’t help but say.

Having someone outside makes things easier; this is faster than running around on his own.

"Thanks for the compliment!"

Tilin replied.

The head of the distributor here is named Baoli David.

A tall Caucasian, over six feet tall, dressed in a blue suit, physically fit, with a strong American elite style.

Such people, when seen by ordinary folks, easily make them feel inferior because the aura is imposing.

But fortunately, Xu Lin’s aura was even stronger.

"Huaxia person?"

Baoli was shocked upon seeing Xu Lin.

Usually, he interacts with quite a few Huaxia people, Chinese descent, and even other yellow Asians, but he has never seen someone like Xu Lin.

Moreover, with one glance, he could tell this person is Huaxia, because Huaxia people give a different feeling to the West, unlike the two East Asian countries, Japan and Korea.

"Hello, how should I address you?"

Baoli extended his hand first, offering a handshake.

The mainstream value in the western world is individualism, emphasizing personal value, personal power, personal heroism.

Summary: The strong make the rules.

Now, Xu Lin stood before him, this Huaxia person gave a very strong impression.

He’s a strong man!

Hence, Baoli instinctively respected him.

"Xu!"

Xu Lin said a phonetic of his name while shaking hands.

"Xu, nice to meet you! I’m Baoli David, you can call me Baoli."

"Hello, Mr. Baoli."

The two exchanged pleasantries and then sat down.

This was a private room in a large hotel.

After sitting down, Baoli went straight to the point: "Xu, are you planning to purchase twenty million US dollars worth of liquid-cooled GPU H100?"

"Yes, and this is the first batch, if smoothly, we can continue cooperating later."

"You’re from Huaxia, buying for Huaxia?"

"I think my demand is not equivalent to the large demand from my country, if buying for my home country, I suppose it shouldn’t just be me, a team should come, right?"

Actually, on the GPU front, the United States still has export restrictions against Huaxia, requiring export permits, and high-performance GPUs like the H100 in Huaxia can’t be bought through normal channels, buying them requires non-standard channels, which would be very troublesome, and undoubtedly more expensive.

Xu Lin directly asked the distributor, since money can be saved.

At this moment, sitting there, Xu Lin’s aura was astonishing, like a king, speaking giving Baoli a strong sense of persuasion.

Sitting opposite was Baoli, feeling almost subservient, never having seen such a man, becoming more and more shocked, not daring to underestimate the other.

"Haha, Xu, I was just joking, I’m actually quite willing to do business with men like you!"

Following that, they didn’t have to beat around the bush much, the two discussed some specific matters, and confirmed the purchase.

Xu Lin paid a deposit of one million US dollars, once the goods arrive, paying the remaining nineteen million.

"A part of the GPU settled, still lacking servers."

Different from Xu Lin’s personal website before, which could be directly rented from cloud servers.

AI training for super-large models needs physical servers.

Moreover, a very large scale, at least tens of servers, maybe hundreds or thousands.

Taking up a lot of space.

Plus, Xu Lin demands high-end servers.

But Xu Lin can’t put servers here in North America, damn it, if the North America authorities find out, it’s a problem.

Training AI under their noses, what if it succeeds.

Enough.

Then he wouldn’t be able to leave.

Now it’s the fierce rivalry stage between Huaxia and here, the United States wants to make Huaxia into the next big brother of the north, while Huaxia wants to return to world number one, and squash the opponent down.