DeepSeek-trained AI model on Nvidia’s best chip’ – Best UPSC CSE coaching Institute

‘DeepSeek-trained AI model on Nvidia’s best chip’

25 FEBRUARY 2026

S&T – IT

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s latest AI model was trained on Nvidia’s most advanced AI chip,the Blackwell, a senior Trump administration official said, in what could represent a violation of U.S. export controls.
The U.S. believes DeepSeek will remove the technical indicators that might reveal its use of American AI chips, the official said, adding that the Blackwells are likely clustered at its data centre in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China.
In August 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump opened the door to Nvidia selling a scaled-down version of the Blackwell in China.
But he later reversed course, suggesting the firm’s most advanced chips should be reserved for U.S. companies and kept out of China.
Trump’s decision in December 2025 to allow Chinese firms to buy Nvidia’s second most advanced chips, known as the H200, drew sharp criticism from China hawks, but shipments of chips are stalled over guardrails built into approvals.