By Jaiveer Shekhawat
Publication Date: 2026-02-25 22:00:00
The lab, which is expected to launch its next major update, V4, granted early access to domestic suppliers, including Huawei Technologies, a Reuters report said.
- For its upcoming model, scheduled for release around the Lunar New Year, DeepSeek reportedly withheld access from Nvidia and AMD.
- A senior Trump administration official had told Reuters that DeepSeek’s newest AI model was trained on Nvidia’s top-tier Blackwell chip.
- DeepSeek may seek to remove technical indicators revealing its use of American AI chips, and plans to publicly claim that it used Huawei’s chips to train its model, the Reuters report said, citing sources.
The Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek has not reportedly shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming flagship model for performance optimization.
Instead, the lab, which is expected to launch its next major update, V4, granted early access to domestic suppliers, including Huawei Technologies, a Reuters report said, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Nvidia Left Out
For its upcoming model, scheduled for release around the Lunar New Year, DeepSeek withheld access from Nvidia and AMD, instead giving Chinese chipmakers—such as Huawei—a several-week advantage to fine-tune the software for their own processors, the report added.
A senior Trump administration official had told Reuters that DeepSeek’s newest AI model was trained on Nvidia’s top-tier Blackwell chip, using a cluster located in mainland China, which may violate U.S….
