The boss of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, would have met the founder of Deepseek Thursday during a surprise trip to Beijing – just a day after a committee of the Chamber revealed an investigation to find out if the chip giant violated strict export rules by selling in China.
Huang’s meeting with the Deepseek Liang Wenfeng boss included talks related to “new flea conceptions for Chinese customers”, the Financial Times reportedCiting two families familiar with its schedule. The CEO of Nvidia also met separately Chinese Deputy Minister, He Lifeng and other senior trade officials.
The visit was strongly covered by the Chinese state media, which indicated that Huang had stressed the importance of the Chinese market for the success of the company.
“We hope to continue to cooperate with China,” said Huang, according to Chinese state diffuser CCTV.
Huang’s trip to Beijing could further concern Capitol Hill’s concern, where legislators have already expressed their fears Helped Deepseek and other Chinese companies to catch up with the United States in the AI race.
“We regularly meet government leaders to discuss our business products and technology,” said a spokesperson for Nvidia. In response to the investigation, the company said that it followed the instructions of the US government “to the letter”.
Nvidia’s shares fell by more than 3% on Thursday.
The actions of the company have plunged around 25% since the start of the year alongside the wider oil of the market linked to President Trump’s prices.
Many experts, including the Trump administration, the TSAR, David Sacks and Elon Musk, have questioned Deepseek’s assertion that he formed his IA model for less than $ 6 million and without access to the most advanced fleas in Nvidia.
On Wednesday, the selective committee of China revealed that he asked to know if sales of Nvidia chips in Asia violated American rules.
The panel also called Deepseek a “deep threat” for American national security which “uses tens of thousands of fleas (NVIDIA) which are currently linked to RPC.”
Earlier this week, the Trump administration took the unexpected measure to restrict sales of the H20 computer flea in Nvidia in China.
The less powerful chip has been specially created to bypass existing American export controls on more advanced conceptions.
Nvidia said he expected to take a $ 5.5 billion following the new ban.
Examination of NVIDIA operations has accelerated in the context of climbing Trump’s trade war with China.
The president threatened the total rates of 145% on imports from China.
Beijing retaliated with 125% tariffs on American products.