The Ministry of Trade Industry in Singapore (MTI) hopes that US companies will comply with US exports and local laws in accordance with questions about chips used by Chinese Deepseek to create AI models. He said he was.
This week, Deepseek claimed that a large -scale language model was better than Openai, and the market shook, but the training was part of the price. However, in consideration of the restrictions on exports of advanced AI chips in China, questions about the semiconductor source used to build DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model were immediately raised.
Friday Bloomberg It has been reported US officials were investigating whether Deep Seek had purchased advanced semiconductors from chip maker NVIDIA via Singapore third parties.
NVIDIA’s spokesman said that on Monday on CNBC, the chips used by DeepSeek are completely compliant with exports. When I was contacted by CNBC, DeepSeek could not comment immediately.
“We hope that US companies such as NVIDIA will comply with US exports and domestic laws. The customs law enforcement agencies will continue to work closely with the US counter part,” said MTI. I mentioned in the statement.
“We have always supported the rule of the law, and have actively and firmly acting on individuals and companies who neglect the rules.”
Among Results of the third quarter NVIDIA, which was released in November, said that Singapore accounted for almost 22 % of revenue, but said, “Most of the shipments related to Singapore’s revenue are other than Singapore and will be shipped to Singapore. Not enough. “
MTI quoted NVIDIA’s comments on Saturday statements, saying that Chipmaker had no reason to believe DeepSeek has acquired export control products via Singapore.
“Singapore is an international business hub. Major US and European companies are conducting important businesses here. Nvidia many of these customers use business entities in Singapore, the United States and others. The MTI explains that you will buy chips for products for western countries, “said MTI.
-CNBC’s Ryan Browne has contributed to this report.
