Scoop: Alice Huang's firms invested in DeepSeek, promising black-market Nvidia Blackwell chips
asusarla · x · 2026-11-13
- Per an exclusive by The Information (Jing Yang and Qianer Liu), companies tied to Alice Huang recently invested in DeepSeek through SPVs.
- The investment came with promises to supply DeepSeek with black-market Nvidia Blackwell chips.
- The scoop lands alongside the Jensen Huang departure news, tying Nvidia's leadership shake-up to alleged grey-market chip flows into DeepSeek and a potential bypass of US export controls.
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