Chinese artificial intelligence startup deepseek has relied on nvidia corp The chips deepseek is using were smuggled. Chips that are banned in the country to develop an upcoming ai model, according to a new report in the information.
Has blocked the export of nvidia's blackwell chips to china in an effort to stay ahead in the ai race. Has forbidden from being exported to china, according to six people with knowledge of the matter 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
Nvidia has denied reports that chinese ai startup deepseek is using smuggled blackwell chips for its upcoming ai model The company stated it has seen Chinese ai startup deepseek has been using 'several thousand' banned nvidia blackwell chips to develop its next major model, the information reports, citing six people with knowledge of the matter Chinese ai startup deepseek is advancing its latest significant model development by employing several thousand of nvidia's (nvda) advanced blackwell chips
These chips are subject to export restrictions imposed by the u.s., which prevent them from being shipped to china.
