source S-0062
Chosunbiz: "Firms tied to Alice Hwang invest in China’s DeepSeek amid Nvidia chip evasion claims"
Search excerpts. Relays S-0060 and adds HK01 (VFO International imports from Megaspeed's Indonesian unit, 2024) and a September C4ADS report (800G optical transceivers; VFO 34% stake in a mainland AI-computing firm). Notes it "has not been confirmed" whether the chips entered mainland China. HK01 and C4ADS ("Covert Compute", https://c4ads.org/reports/covert-compute/) originals were not retrieved.
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- source S-0060 The Information: "Alice Huang’s Companies Invested in DeepSeek, Promising Nvidia Chips"
- fact F-0050 The Information reports Alice Huang–linked firms invested in DeepSeek and promised Blackwell access
- claim C-0058 The Information: Litong-linked firms invested in DeepSeek’s round to open a channel for Blackwell chips; DeepSeek staff pitched them as black-market suppliers
- claim C-0059 The Information: Century Litong imported ~240,000 Nvidia chips worth ≥$7.5B into China since 2023, and became an Nvidia preferred cloud partner four months after founding
- claim C-0060 HK01 / C4ADS: Alice Huang’s Hong Kong firm VFO International imported Nvidia chips and equipment from Megaspeed’s Indonesian unit in 2024