Facing US export controls, China’s DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

NVIDIA Corp. — deepSeek, the Chinese startup developing large language models that are competitive with those from US companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, is planning to enter the silicon business, according to Reuters. Citing three people familiar with the matter, Reuters writes that DeepSeek has been working on a move into silicon for about a year.

It has been meeting with potential partners in the hardware and silicon space and has been hiring engineers for the project.