Deepseek loses the fight against chatgpt: AI is prohibited from using Nvidia chips

And for good reason, Deepseek provides Huawei with his ascend chips favored by Beijing. Except that the NVIDIA H20 processors are known to be more efficient, which puts the company embarrassment.

Deepseek is forced to provide Huawei

Chinese authorities strongly encourage Deepseek to adopt the processors of the local manufacturer Huawei instead of depending on American technologies. China wishes to limit its dependence on technologies in the United States, especially in the field of AI.

So certainly, there are Huawei engineers to assist the teams, but Deepseek still cannot conduct a full training with the Ascend fleas. The start-up therefore decided to use Nvidia’s solutions for training but keeps the fleas ascend for other tasks.

However, the launch of Deepseek R2 was scheduled for May 2025, but now AI is desired in the face of its technical obstacles and a longer data labeling. Liang Wenfeng, founder of Deepseek, would have expressed his dissatisfaction with the too low progress of the model.

This delay therefore benefits competitors like chatgpt fromOpenai who launched its GPT-5 modelGemini of Google or Claude anthropic. Beijing’s decision to limit dependence to be self -sufficiency in the field of AI is putting enormous pressure on local businesses.

In practice, the strategy has important shortcomings in terms of stability, inter -uce connectivity and software maturity between the fleas of Huawei and those of Nvidia, leader in the field.

Nvidia thinks it is important that Chinese developers have always had access to these technologies and, according to society, restricting their adoption could harm economic interests and national security.

The Chinese IA companies have no choice but to navigate between government pressure and the reality on the ground to develop and deploy language models.

But that Deepseek lovers reassure themselves, the R2 model could still see the light of day in the coming weeks despite all its setbacks. Obviously, all enthusiasts will scrutinize the capacities and benchmarks of Chinese AI to find out if it still holds up against the Openai leader.