"The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA's H200 AI chips, according to . ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have also reportedly received permission from Beijing to buy a total of 400,000 H200 GPUs. Reuters says Chinese authorities are still finalizing the conditions they're imposing on the companies to be able to proceed with their orders, so it may take a while before they're able to receive their shipments."
"In addition, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that his company has yet to receive orders from the aforementioned firms and that he believed China is still finalizing their licenses."
"China's National Development and Reform Commission is the agency in charge of determining the conditions Chinese companies have to meet in order to buy H200 units. Stateside, DeepSeek's purchase could lead to questions from authorities. As Reuters notes, a lawmaker has just accused NVIDIA of helping DeepSeek develop AI models that were subsequently used by the Chinese military."
Beijing approved DeepSeek to purchase NVIDIA H200 AI chips and granted ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent permission to acquire a combined 400,000 H200 GPUs, though Chinese authorities are still finalizing conditions for those orders and shipments may be delayed. NVIDIA's CEO said the company has not yet received orders from the named firms and that China is still finalizing licenses. The U.S. allowed sales of H200 and H20 models to vetted Chinese companies with a 25 percent tariff in December 2025. The H200 is significantly more powerful than the H20 and second only to NVIDIA's B200. China's National Development and Reform Commission will set the conditions, and the DeepSeek purchase could prompt scrutiny in the United States amid accusations linking NVIDIA-linked work to models later used by the Chinese military.
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