DeepSeek is accused of wrongdoing.

An anonymous source claims that Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips have been smuggled into China. DeepSeek is reportedly using these chips to train the company's latest AI model.

DeepSeek is reportedly still using Nvidia chips, which are banned from sale in China, to develop its upcoming AI model. Photo: Bloomberg .

According to a new report from The Information , Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has used Nvidia chips, which are banned from sale in the country, to develop its upcoming AI model.

Specifically, the report, citing anonymous sources, stated that Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips were smuggled into China through countries authorized to sell them. Furthermore, the servers containing these chips were even dismantled before arriving in China.

The attempt to smuggle Blackwell chips, a leading American AI technology, for model development demonstrates the heavy reliance of the Chinese AI industry on American hardware.

Despite significant investment by the Chinese government in chip manufacturing, domestic alternatives are still not competitive enough with Nvidia's best products on the global market.

Deepseek has just announced its DeepseekMath-V2 model, which has achieved gold medal-winning results in a number of prestigious mathematics competitions. This move places the Chinese company in direct competition with leading US AI labs, which are at the forefront of linguistic modeling reasoning capabilities.

According to technical documentation, DeepseekMath-V2 achieved gold medal results at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and the 2024 Chinese CMO competition. In the Putnam competition, the model scored 118 out of 120 points, far surpassing the 90-point mark achieved by the highest-scoring human contestant in history. These results demonstrate its ability to handle complex problems.

The Chinese company explained that the limitation of previous AI models lay in the fact that while they could provide correct answers, they could not present a valid solution.

To overcome this, DeepseekMath-V2 uses a multi-stage process that includes evaluating correctness, checking counterarguments, and providing a final result. This operating method allows the system to self-review and refine the solution in real time, avoiding situations where the conclusion is correct but the reasoning is flawed.

Notably, Deepseek's documentation doesn't mention the use of external tools like computers or code interpreters in the model. The test setup shows that all results were generated entirely in natural language.

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