Nvidia Corp. provided technical support that helped DeepSeek improve its breakthrough artificial intelligence model despite US export controls designed to restrict the Chinese startup’s access to high-end American chips, according to the Republican head of the House China committee.
DeepSeek achieved cutting-edge performance with its R1 model thanks to what Nvidia called “an optimized co-design of algorithms, frameworks and hardware” for using its H800 processors, Representative John Moolenaar wrote in a letter Wednesday to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Nvidia also proposed offering DeepSeek as an enterprise-ready product to be deployed on its hardware, Moolenaar wrote, citing records obtained ...
