US EditionDeepSeek withholds latest AI model from US chipmakers including Nvidia: Reuters
DeepSeek’s decision reflects rising U.S.-China export tensions and aims to strengthen Chinese chipmakers by granting Huawei early access to its flagship AI model V4.
- On Feb 25, Reuters reported DeepSeek granted early access to Huawei Technologies for its V4 model while excluding Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices.
- Breaking with convention, AI developers normally share pre-release models with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices to optimize performance, but DeepSeek excluded them for its V4 rollout around the Lunar New Year, while planning to unveil new models this month.
- A senior U.S. administration official told Reuters the model was trained on Nvidia's Blackwell using a mainland China cluster, and DeepSeek may try to remove indicators and claim Huawei hardware powered training.
- DeepSeek's public adoption shows its models have more than 75 million downloads on Hugging Face, intensifying debate in Washington over U.S. chip exports despite $390 million sales of AMD's MI308 last year.
- Market watchers add that analysts say the exclusion's effect on Nvidia and AMD will be limited because AI coding tools reduce optimization time from months to weeks.
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DeepSeek sidelines Nvidia, AMD in latest AI model rollout, Huawei gets early access: Report
Breaking from industry practice ahead of a major release, DeepSeek did not share pre-release versions of its next model, V4, with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for performance optimisation. Instead, it granted early access to domestic suppliers
DeepSeek hides upcoming flagship AI model from US chipmakers like Nvidia, shows preview to Chinese Huawei: Report
For its forthcoming model, which was expected to be released around the Lunar New Year holiday, DeepSeek did not provide access to Nvidia and AMD and gave Chinese chipmakers, including Huawei, a head start of several weeks to optimize the software for their processors.
DeepSeek withholds latest AI model from US chipmakers including Nvidia, sources say
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming flagship model for performance optimization, two sources familiar with the matter said, breaking from standard industry practice ahead of a major model update.
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