One of the keys being, of course, that the Chinese government doesn't care. Yeah it might require mules bringing the GPUs into China but once they're in China, no one is breaking any laws. Of course DeepSeek is using these GPUs! It's not illegal for them to do so!

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whatsupdog 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Chinese government recently banned Chinese companies from buying Nvidia chips.

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berdario 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yup, the change was in the news in September

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/china-blocks-sal...

	▲	hedora 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s not a ban of nvidia chips though. It’s for a few of the biggest companies, and is specifically telling them not to buy a made-for-china SKU: > The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) told companies, including ByteDance and Alibaba, this week to end their testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, Nvidia’s tailor-made product for the country, according to three people with knowledge of the matter

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lenerdenator 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The US government doesn't really care either.

We have someone in the comments section talking about how they encountered a bunch of suspicious bidders on their GPU auction. That's not what happens when people care about being potentially investigated for breaking export rules.

	▲	pests 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> suspicious bidders A person with a Chinese name living in Delaware? Gasp.

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BeFlatXIII 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would the Chinese government care about US export restrictions in the first place?

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zapataband2 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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