A report on Friday stated that Deepsek was able to obtain US sanctions on chips used for AI and bought advanced NVidia semiconductors. People familiar with the situation say that Deepsek bought chips through third parties located in Singapore. Given that Deepsek was able to develop its LLM model at a fraction of the cost that Openai and Google spent to develop chat and Gemini respectively, American analysts wonder whether China from America It is far ahead when it comes to this cumbersome technology.
“We insist that our partners follow all the applied laws, and if we get any information on the contrary, work accordingly.”-NVIDIA
Both the White House and the FBI are investigating whether the lamps used intermediaries in Southeast Asia to obtain American sanctions to prevent the sale of NVidia’s advanced AI chips in China. Santa Clara California -based Nvidia said in a statement that her colleagues should work within the law. Earlier this week, the chip maker said that it did not believe that Deepsek had violated the law.
“Chips of NVIDIA, which they bought tons, and they discovered their ways around it, run their Deepsek model. It is over. If they are going to compete with us, let them compete, but with us Stop using our equipment to compete, but stop competing with us to compete with us.
On the other hand, Havard Lutnik, head of President Donald Trump’s Commerce Department, said that it is okay to compete with American AI companies for Deepsek. However, if they want to go against the US AI firms, Lutnik said that they need to prevent us from using America’s own devices (such as NVidia chips) to compete with us.
Some figures indicate that Singapore may be involved in helping Deepsek receive Nvidia chips. The percentage of revenue received from the country increased from 9% to 22% in two years.
Deepsek accepted to use 2,048 of NVIDIA’s H800 GPU chips to train its V3 model and its R1 model was trained on a more powerful machine, which possibly required the use of a more advanced Nvidia GPU. Which cannot be sold in China.
