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‘Horrible’ for US if DeepSeek AI models run on Huawei chips: Nvidia CEO

South China Morning Post · · 223 words · By Coco Feng
US-China Tech Competition AI Technology Development
open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3350460/nvidias-jensen-huang-warns-huawei-chip…

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6 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“If “future AI models are optimised in a very different way than the American tech stack”, and as “AI diffuses out into the rest of the world” with Chinese standards and technology, China “will become superior to” the US, Huang said on the Dwarkesh Podcast on Wednesday.”
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The evidence provided consists of multiple web search results citing statements made by Jensen Huang on a podcast. While multiple search results reference the same core statement (Huang warning about DeepSeek using Huawei chips), they all appear to be reporting on the same event/source material (the Dwarkesh Podcast). There is no evidence from 2+ *independent* news organizations reporting this specific prediction, only multiple reports *about* the same source.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on a recent podcast that if Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek optimised its new models on chips from Huawei Technologies, it would be “a horrible outcome” …
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3350460/nvidias-jensen-hua…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a stark warning about the future of artificial intelligence competition, declaring that if Chinese AI startup DeepSeek optimizes its breakthrough models on Huawei Tec…
https://planet.news/article/nvidia-jensen-huang-deepseek-hua…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Explosive Dwarkesh Podcast: Supply Chain Moat, TPU Competition, China Chip Sales & Why US-China AI Dialogue Is Now Non-Negotiable (April 2026). In just 24 hours after its rel…
https://www.ai.cc/blogs/jensen-huang-dwarkesh-podcast-2026-n…
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“US news outlet The Information reported earlier this month that V4 would run on Huawei’s latest Ascend 950PR processor”
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Multiple web search results report that DeepSeek V4 is being optimized or reported to run on Huawei's Ascend AI chips, suggesting a pattern of reporting across different sources regarding this technical detail.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack doss) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — HiSilicon (Chinese: 海思; pinyin: Hǎisī) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province and wholly owned by Huawei. HiSilicon purchases licenses for CPU designs from AR…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiSilicon
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models
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“a separate report by Reuters last month suggested that the model had been trained on Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which would be a violation of US export controls.”
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Multiple web search results report that DeepSeek's latest model was trained on Nvidia's Blackwell chips, and that this usage would violate US export controls, citing reports from various sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's latest AI model, set to be released as soon as next week, was trained on Nvidia's most advanced AI chip, the Blackwell, a senior Trump administration official said on ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-trained-…
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web search NEUTRAL — A senior U.S. official told Reuters that DeepSeek trained its latest AI model on Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips in mainland China, despite export controls prohibiting their shipment ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/deepseek-shuts-out-us…
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web search NEUTRAL — DeepSeek has withheld early access of its V4 model from Nvidia and AMD and has opted to work with Huawei instead. This comes as US officials have alleged that DeepSeek may have used Nvidia's advanced …
https://www.outlookbusiness.com/corporate/deepseek-ditches-n…
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“DeepSeek’s V3 model, launched in late 2024, was trained on 2,048 Nvidia H800 graphics processing units (GPUs), based on the ageing Hopper technology.”
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Two separate web search results provide specific, corroborating details regarding the training of DeepSeek V3, mentioning the use of H800 GPUs and the count of 2048 GPUs, based on technical reports.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek. Released on 20 January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded freeware app on th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek_(chatbot)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models
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“The product, tailor-made for the China market to circumvent export controls, was banned from sale to China in 2023.”
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The evidence mentions the context of export controls and DeepSeek's positioning in China, but the specific claim that the V3 model 'was banned from sale in China in 2023' is not directly corroborated by multiple independent sources. The sources discuss the *context* of bans and US concerns, but not this specific 2023 ban on the V3 model.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops large language models (LLMs).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — DeepSeek is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the Chinese company DeepSeek. Released on 20 January 2025, DeepSeek-R1 surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded freeware app on th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek_(chatbot)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a type of machine learning model designed for natural language processing tasks such as language generation. LLMs are language models with many parameters, and are trai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_language_models
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“Regulatory restrictions had eased recently under the Trump administration, with Nvidia restarting production of the H200, a more powerful chip, to be sold in China, Huang said in March.”
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Multiple web search results report that Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, stated that the company is restarting or gearing up to sell H200 processors to customers in China, indicating a reported shift in regulatory environment.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia is gearing up to sell its H200 processors to customers in China after a lengthy delay due to restrictions from both the U.S. and Chinese government.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the company is firing up manufacturing of H200 AI accelerators for customers in China, a sign of progress in the chipmaker's effort to reenter th…
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2026/03/18/nvidia-ceo-says-com…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia is restarting production of its H200 artificial intelligence chips for Chinese customers, marking a potential breakthrough in the long-running U.S.-China technology standoff and reopening a key…
https://etedge-insights.com/technology/artificial-intelligen…
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