US House panel chair claims NVIDIA documents show technical support for Chinese AI firm DeepSeek

Representative John Moolenaar john moolenaar, the chair of the House Select Committee on China, sent a letter to United States USCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick howard lutnickregarding allegations that NVIDIA Corporation NVDApersonnel provided technical assistance to the Chinese CNfirm DeepSeek. The committee asserts that internal documents from NVIDIA Corporationindicate that the company’s staff helped DeepSeek achieve significant gains in AI training efficiency. The letter alleges that these AI models were subsequently utilized by the military of China, a development that follows the recent approval of newer chip sales by the administration of Donald Trump donald trump.

The documents obtained by the committee cover NVIDIA Corporationactivities from 2024 and reportedly show that technology-development personnel assisted DeepSeek through an optimized co-design of algorithms, frameworks, and hardware. According to internal reporting cited in the letter, the DeepSeek-V3 model requires 2.788 million H800 GPU hours for its full training. GPU hours, which measure how many hours an AI chip must run to train an AI model, are a key metric for frontier-scale models developed by United Statesfirms like Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, OpenAI, and Anthropic. DeepSeek released AI models early last year that reportedly matched the performance of these leading versions while using significantly less computing power, which attracted market attention.