U.S. officials are investigating whether China’s DeepSeek purchased advanced Nvidia (NVDA) semiconductors through third parties in Singapore, circumventing U.S. restrictions on sales of chips used for AI purposes, Bloomberg’s Jordan Robertson, Mackenzie Hawkins, and Jenny Leonard report, citing people familiar with the matter. The Chinese AI startup recently released the R1 chatbot that in some respects performs as well as similar chatbots from U.S. companies, the authors note.
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