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The Trump administration is regard new limitation on the Formosan AI science laboratory DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia ’s AI french fries and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services , The New York Timesreported on Wednesday .

The restrictions are part of the Trump administration ’s crusade to compete with China on AI . Months afterDeepSeek jolted both Silicon Valley and Wall Street , U.S. officials seem to be weigh several options to specify China ’s access to American technologies and consumers .

On Tuesday , the White Housemoved to restrict more of Nvidia ’s AI chip sales to China , strengthen linguistic rule created by the Biden governance .

DeepSeek ’s popularity among U.S. AI developer has soared in late months , and the startup ’s competitory pricing has forced Silicon Valley to pop the question frontier AI models at lower monetary value .

There are lingering questions , however , around whether DeepSeek engaged in IP larceny to create some of its more competitive modelling . OpenAI hasalleged that the Chinese lab distilled its example , violating OpenAI ’s terms of use .

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