"You have to ensure that you're not wasteful with what you have, and this (DeepSeek-V3) looks like a nice demonstration that there's still a lot to get through with both data and algorithms," he added. Soon after, the US also banned the export of NVIDIA's H800 to China and prevented the company from selling chips even with a reduced transfer rate. While there is no official disclosure of the number of H800 GPUs exported to China, an investigation suggested that there is an underground network of around 70 sellers who claim to receive dozens of GPUs every month. Another report also revealed that NVIDIA's chips are reaching China as a part of server products from Dell, Supermicro, etc. Recently, the US Department of Commerce asked NVIDIA to investigate how its produce has reached China. While it isn't clear whether DeepSeek purchased NVIDIA's H800s while it was being legally exported, their work is everything that the US government did not wish to see.