Exclusive | How a Chinese AI Company Worked Around U.S. Rules to Access Nvidia’s Top Chips

JAKARTA, Indonesia—President Trump made clear earlier this month that he doesn’t want Nvidia NVDA 0.33%increase; green up pointing triangle selling its most advanced artificial-intelligence chips to China.

But inside a tall, windowless building in Indonesia’s capital, about 2,300 of those chips are ready to do work for a Chinese AI company.