Singapore charges 3 in link to alleged Nvidia chips smuggling to DeepSeek

Organized transport to China had been suspected in city-state amid U.S. crackdown

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The U.S. is investigating if DeepSeek, the Chinese company whose AI model's performance rocked the tech world in January, has been using Nvidia chips barred from entering China. © AP

SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -- Singapore charged three men with fraud in a case domestic media have linked to the movement of Nvidia's advanced chips from the city state to Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek.

The United States is investigating if DeepSeek, the Chinese company whose AI model's performance rocked the tech world in January, has been using U.S. chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China, Reuters reported earlier.

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