The U.S. government is currently looking into whether Chinese startup DeepSeek had illegally obtained Nvidia GPUs through middlemen in Singapore. The U.S. has strict curbs on China for advanced chips to make sure the former maintains its technology supremacy. DeepSeek came to fame when it launched its R1 reasoning model . The model was very close to OpenAI o1 model, which not many have access to, as it is locked behind the ChatGPT Pro membership that requires a paid subscription. DeepSeek not...
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