February 11, 2025

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Did DeepSeek Use Shell Companies In Singapore To Procure Nvidia Blacklisted Chips?

Zero Hedge

by Tyler Durden
Friday, Jan 31, 2025 – 07:20 AM

Chinese startup DeepSeek’s latest AI models, V3 and R1, were reportedly trained on just 2,048 Nvidia H800 chips—GPUs that were blacklisted by the US government in 2023 for sale to Chinese firms. Federal investigators are now combing through trade data to determine how DeepSeek acquired the restricted chips.

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