fact F-0047 Verified

Reuters: a senior Trump administration official says DeepSeek trained its upcoming model on Blackwell

Date: 2026-02-23
Topics: blackwell, government, context
File: facts/F-0047-reuters-a-senior-trump-administration-official-says-deepseek.md

Publication verified. The content rests on one unnamed official (C-0056). Two days later Reuters reported DeepSeek withheld V4 from US chipmakers and gave Huawei early access (F-0048). DeepSeek V4 models appeared in April 2026 (per S-0045 Table 1).

Sources

S-0056 · Reuters · 2026-02-23 · link (snippet)

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claim C-0056 Unnamed senior administration official: DeepSeek’s upcoming model was trained on Blackwell, likely in Inner Mongolia
theory T-0005 Anthropic-linked network (seed article’s theory)
theory T-0010 Nvidia’s China channel: diversion as business model, espionage as distraction