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Export controls forced DeepSeek into optimizations

Export controls are working: DeepSeek had to spend their calories and time on impressive low-level infrastructure optimizations that American labs didn't need to, because they are using partially nerfed chips that are the only ones NVIDIA is allowed to sell in China — and as a result their model is text-only while every major model is now multimodal.

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Speaker

Mark Zuckerberg

Evidence Quote

But then you ask, "Why did they have to do that, when none of the American labs did it?" It’s because they’re using partially nerfed chips that are the only ones NVIDIA is allowed to sell in China because of the export controls.

Source

Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 monthsDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:33:00 AM

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