While the emergence of DeepSeek has hit Nvidia's stock, smaller AI chip companies say they're experiencing increased demand and market opportunity.

U.S. officials are investigating whether Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek skirted American export restrictions on advanced chip sales and bought advanced Nvidia (NVDA) semiconductors through third parties in Singapore,

The Commerce Department has launched a probe into whether Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek obtained restricted Nvidia chips through Singapore, reports say.

The U.S. government is probing whether the Hangzhou-based AI firm has built its disruptive R1 AI model on restricted Nvidia chips.

DeepSeek has given China's artificial intelligence (AI) push a shot in the arm, as the country's chip developers and cloud service providers rush to support the start-up's increasingly popular models.