Congressman John Moolenaar (R-MI), chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, penned a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that Nvidia provided extensive technical support to DeepSeek, enabling the startup to achieve chatbot performance breakthroughs despite US export controls on advanced AI chips to China to mitigate the risks of the technology falling into the hands of Beijing’s military. “While NVIDIA asserts its relationship with DeepSeek is “to promote the [AI] ecosystem flywheel and improve NVIDIA’s products,” documents produced to the Committee reveal NVIDIA provided extensive technical support that enabled DeepSeek—now integrated into People’s Liberation Army (PLA) systems and a demonstrated cybersecurity risk—to achieve frontier AI capabilities,” Moolenaar wrote in the letter sent to Lutnick’s office on Wednesday. Moolenaar continued, “These findings demonstrate why rigorous enforcement of the Department’s H200 export rule, which requires certification that chips will not serve military purposes, is essential—even if such enforcement effectively prevents H200 exports to the PRC altogether.” DeepSeek’s release sent shock waves through US markets last year – about this time – over risks that …