Nvidia helped DeepSeek hone AI models later used by China's military, lawmaker says

Nvidia helped DeepSeek hone AI models later used by China's military, lawmaker says

U.S. chipmaker Nvidia helped China's DeepSeek hone artificial intelligence models that were later used by the Chinese military, the chairman of a U.S. House of Representatives committee said in a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.  In a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Representative John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on China, said documents obtained by the committee from Nvidia showed…

Chinese Government Gives DeepSeek Conditional Approval To Purchase NVIDIA H200 Chips

Reuters recently reported that China had given DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, conditional approval to purchase NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips. News of the approval came about earlier in the week, with initial reports saying that the AI startup was being allowed to purchase more than 400,000 units of the high-end accelerators. At the time of this publication, NVIDIA hasn’t appeared to have given a statement on the news, with its CEO, Jensen Huang, hav…