Sebastian Strangio
The U.S. government is investigating whether the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has been using U.S. chips that are barred from being shipped to China, including from third parties in Singapore.
In a report on Friday, Reuters quoted a source as saying that the U.S. Commerce Department is looking into whether the firm had obtained advanced Nvidia graphics processing unit (GPU) chips that are subject to tight U.S. export controls.
Bloomberg also reported on Friday that officials in the White House and Federal Bureau of Investigation are “also trying to determine whether DeepSeek used intermediaries” based in Singapore to obtain the Nvidia GPUs.
Earlier this month, DeepSeek released its R1 AI model, which the Hangzhou-based company claims is able to achieve equivalent results to the leading U.S. models, though at much greater efficiency and just a fraction of the cost. Nearly overnight, DeepSeek had shot to the top of the list of most downloaded apps in Apple’s App Store. It also prompted profound questions about the resource- and data-intensive approach of the leading U.S. AI firms, including OpenAI. This precipitated a market collapse that wiped more than $1 trillion off U.S. technology stocks.
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