There are export restrictions. We’ve not been exporting AI processors (nVidia) to China. Some of it falls under I.T.A.R. laws. You can’t just export these technologies to whomever.
That said, DeepSeek is a different software approach, they’ve not developed their own chips to run it all on. It’s also open source, so you can run it on the powerful hardware anyway. For once, it gives us the ability to copy+1 on China. The other problem China has, DeepSeek neural training (from our models?) contains all kinds of content that is a nightmare for the CCP (free speech concepts, knowledge of outside cultures, law, religion, etc.). I’m hearing that the CCP want to “shut this thing up” as much as it is an advancement.
Put this altogether and it is a big yawn...in terms of China being ahead of everyone and keeping it that way.
“We’ve not been exporting AI processors (nVidia) to China.”
Yes we are, a whole Truck load went to China just the other day. No way that was not an internal setup blamed as “theft”.