The US COMMERCE DAPARTMENT is Looking Into WhipseK h the matter said.
China's Deepsek Last Week Launched a Free Assistant It Says Uses Less Data at a Fraction of the cost of us models. Within Days, it became the most downloaded app in apple's app store and stirred concerns about united states' lead in Ai, sparking a rout Chnology stocks.
Current restrictions on nvidia artificial intelligence (ai) processors are meant to stop its most sophisticated chips from Reaching China.
Organized AI Chip Smugggling to China has been tracked out of Countries Including Malaysia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, The Source Said.
The Commerce Department and Deepseek Did Not Immedited Return Requests for Comment.
An Nvidia spokesperson said many of its customers have business entities in singapore and use those entities for products destined for the us and the west.
“We insist that our partners are all applicable laws, and if we receive any information to the contrary, act accorded,” Nvidia said.
Deepsek has said it used nvidia's h800 chips, which it would have legalized purchased in 2023. .
Deepseek also apparently has Nvidia's Less Powerful H20s, which can still law lawfully be shipped to china. The US Considered Controlling them under the biden administration and newly appointed Trump Officials Are Discussing that as Well.
The ceo of ai company anthropic, dario amodei, said earlier this week, “It appears that a substantial fraction of Deepsek's Ai Chip Fleet Conssts of Chips that Haven banned ipped before they were banned ; and some that seem very likely to have been smugged. “
The us has put in place a raft of restrictions barring expenses of ai chips to china and plans to cap their shipments to a host of other counties.
© Thomson Reuters 2025
(This story has not been edited by ndtv staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)