He told CNBC: "My understanding is that Deepseek has about 50,000 H100s, which they can't talk about obviously because it is against the export controls that the U.S. has put in p

Although it was initially thought that DeepSeek was using Nvidia’s lower-performing H800 chips, Wang confirmed that the startup is leveraging the banned H100 chips.

Powerful artificial intelligence software from Chinese startup DeepSeek indicates that its engineers built a competitive model despite US attempts to curtail China’s tech development, raising questions about the effectiveness of Washington’s trade curbs.