Chinese AI company's AI model breakthrough highlights limits of US sanctions

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek says it has trained an AI model comparable to the leading models from heavyweights like OpenAI , Meta , and Anthropic .

The company used a cluster of 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs, each equipped with NVLink interconnects for GPU -to- GPU and InfiniBand interconnect for node communications.

The claims haven't been fully validated yet, but the startling announcement suggests that while US sanctions have impacted the availability of AI hardware in China , clever scientists are working to extract the utmost performance from limited amounts of hardware.

Secondly , although our deployment strategy for DeepSeek-V3 has achieved an end-to-end generation speed of more than two times that of DeepSeek-V2 , there still remains potential for further enhancement. Fortunately, these limitations are expected to be naturally addressed with the development of more advanced hardware." Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware . Over the past couple of decades , he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends..