DeepSeek staff pitched Alice Huang-linked firms as black-market Nvidia chip suppliers, The Information reports

According to The Information, DeepSeek employees pitched companies tied to Alice Huang and her family to investors as substantial suppliers of black-market Nvidia AI chips. The outlet says that pitch helped the firms secure a place in DeepSeek’s $15.8 billion funding round; they invested through special purpose vehicles that kept them off its shareholder list.