The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida (USAO-MDFL) said two Tampa residents have been arrested and charged for allegedly exporting artificial intelligence technology to China.

The release said two U.S. citizens and two nationals of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) have been charged with a conspiracy to illegally export NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which have artificial intelligence (AI) applications, to the PRC.

Officials said they arrested 34-year-old Hon Ning Ho, aka Mathew Ho, a U.S. citizen residing in Tampa; 46-year old Brian Curtis Raymond, a U.S. citizen residing in Huntsville, Alabama; 38-year-old Cham Li, aka Tony Li, a PRC national residing in San Leandro, California, and 45-year-old Jing Chen, aka Harry Chen, a PRC national on F-1

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