Nvidia Worked to ‘Co-Design’ DeepSeek Model, US Lawmaker Says

Nvidia Corp. provided technical support that helped DeepSeek improve its breakthrough artificial intelligence model despite US export controls designed to restrict the Chinese startup’s access to high-end American chips, according to the Republican head of the House China committee.

DeepSeek achieved cutting-edge performance with its R1 model thanks to what Nvidia called “an optimized co-design of algorithms, frameworks and hardware” for using its H800 processors, Representative John Moolenaar wrote in a letter Wednesday to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Nvidia also proposed offering DeepSeek as an enterprise-ready product to be deployed on its hardware, Moolenaar wrote, citing records obtained ...