Nvidia decries 'far-fetched' reports of smuggling in face of DeepSeek training reports — unnamed sources claim Chinese company is involved in Blackwell smuggling ring

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Summary

DeepSeek is allegedly involved in a “phantom data center” smuggling scheme to get Blackwell GPU servers into China as part of training its newest LLM generation. While Nvidia refutes the claims as “farfetched,” some proof indicates otherwise.