Washington is concerned about chips being leaked to China. A senior U.S. administration official said on Monday that DeepSeek, a Chinese startup's latest artificial intelligence model, scheduled for launch next week, was trained on the most advanced AI chip from Nvidia, Blackwell. This may violate U.S. export controls. The official added that the U.S. believes DeepSeek will remove technical indicators that could reveal its use of U.S. AI chips. The official refused to disclose how the U.S. government obtained this information. Nvidia declined to comment.
