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Is DeepSeek training on banned chips?

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On February 23, a source within the Trump administration told Reuters that DeepSeek's upcoming model was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips.

Under US export controls, the Blackwell series is banned from export to China.

As expected: The Chinese embassy in Washington rejected the accusation, callin...