Here's everything that's been going on with DeepSeek, from Nvidia stock crash to OpenAI's distillation claims
Introduced with the aim of stopping the country from being able to access the equipment needed for rapid AI development, the export of the Nvidia A100 chip was banned. The US company then developed the H800 chips for the Chinese market, which DeepSeek trained its AI model on, before they were also banned in 2023.