Lawmakers push Trump to restrict Nvidia chip sales to China’s DeepSeek
Two United States lawmakers have alleged that DeepSeek has relied on Nvidia chips which they believe it poses a national security threat.
Lawmakers push Trump to restrict Nvidia chip sales to China’s DeepSeek
Lawmakers are urging President Donald Trump to consider imposing new restrictions on the export of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence ( AI ) chips to China’s DeepSeek. Representatives John Moolenaar and Raja Krishnamoorthi have expressed concerns that DeepSeek’s advancements, achieved using Nvidia’s H20 chip, could pose national security risks. They recommend that the administration tighten export controls to prevent China from further enhancing its AI capabilities. However, Nvidia has stated that it products comply with all government requirements and is open to collaborating with the administration on this issue as it pursues its own approach to AI. DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that develops open-source large language models. The company has already launched up to three AI models including VL, V2, Coder, V3, R1 and Janus-Pro-7B. However, what the U.S’s lawmakers are saying is that the “sophisticated” AI models— R1 and Janus-Pro-7B—that was recently released by DeepSeek made "extensi…
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