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Singapore Scheme May Have Funneled Nvidia Chips to DeepSeek | Three people, including one Chinese national, were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.
Three people, including one Chinese national, were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.
Singaporeans identified as Aaron Woon Guo Jie and Alan Wei Zhaolun, along with Chinese national Li Ming were charged by the city-state’s authorities for allegedly lying about supplying unidentified items to a server company—crimes that carry a penalty of up to 20 years in jail and a potential fine. According to a report from Channel News Asia, the “items” in the fraud case were Nvidia chips, and their real final destination was allegedly China’s AI firm that caused a whole lot of commotion earlier this year when it dropped a model that produced high-end performance despite spending significantly less on training. Shortly after DeepSeek revealed its open-source AI model and chatbot, the US Department of Commerce started investigating whether the company was using chips that it wasn’t supposed to have access to.
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