DeepSeek Trains Model With Nvidia Blackwell Chips

A senior Trump administration official said on Monday that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek trained its newest model using Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips, likely clustered at a data center in Inner Mongolia, potentially violating U.S. export controls. The confirmation, first reported by Reuters, raises enforcement and policy questions and could affect approvals of scaled H200 chip sales to Chinese firms.
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