The US Trade Department is analyzing whether DeepSeek – the Chinese company whose performance of the AI model has shook the technology world – is using US chips that cannot be sent to China, a familiar person said.
China Deepseek Last week, he launched a free assistant who, he said, uses less data for a fraction of the cost of US models. In a few days, the application became lower in the Apple App Store and stirred concerns about the leadership of the United States Therecausing a defeat that cleaned about $ 1 trillion (approximately RS. 86.63.626 Crore) from US technology stocks.
Current restrictions on Nvidia Artificial Intelligence (AI) processors should prevent their most sophisticated chips from coming to China.
The organized AI chip smuggling was tracked in countries, including Malaysia, Singapore and United Arab Emirates, the source said.
The Department of Commerce and DeepSeek did not immediately return requests for comments.
One Nvidia The -Voz Port said many of its customers have commercial entities in Singapore and use these entities for products intended for the US and the West.
“We insist that our partners comply with all applicable laws and, if we receive any information to the contrary, act accordingly,” said Nvidia.
Deepseek said it used Nvidia’s H800 chips, which could have legally bought in 2023. Reuters could not determine if Deepseek used other controlled chips that cannot be sent to China.
Apparently DeepSeek also has the least powerful H20s from Nvidia, which can still be sent legally to China. The US has considered controlling them under the Biden government and the newly -named Trump employees are also discussing this.
The CEO of Ai Company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said earlier this week: “It seems that a substantial fraction of Deepseek’s AI chip consists of chips that were not prohibited (but should be), chips that were sent before they were banned;
The US implemented a number of restrictions except AI chip exports to China and plans to end its remittances to a number of other countries.
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