New: Companies tied to Alice Huang recently invested in DeepSeek so that the Chinese AI lab could receive a steady stream of Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which are banned from sale in China, @jingyanghk and @QianerLiu report. Alice Huang's companies invested through special purpose vehicles, and as a result do not appear directly on DeepSeek's shareholder list. The previously unreported relationship will add heat to scrutiny about Nvidia and now ousted CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang and her corporate network in China https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alice-huangs-companies-invested-deepseek-promising-nvidia-chips