Nvidia refuted a report that the chinese ai startup deepseek has been using smuggled blackwell chips to develop its upcoming model. Deepseek has reportedly acquired 2,000 banned nvidia blackwell chips, overshadowing a $160 million doj bust of smugglers moving older h100 hardware. Deepseek is allegedly involved in a phantom data center smuggling scheme to get blackwell gpu servers into china as part of training its newest llm generation
While nvidia refutes the claims as. The company stated it has seen no evidence of phantom datacenters used for. Chinese artificial intelligence startup deepseek has relied on nvidia corp
Nvidia has denied reports that chinese ai startup deepseek is using smuggled blackwell chips for its upcoming ai model
