The US almost blacklisted DeepSeek for contributing to China’s military and intelligence — but the White House held back to avoid escalating tensions
- DeepSeek was recommended to be added to the US Entity List
- The company was accused of assisting Chinese military and intelligence
- White House avoided blacklisting companies ahead of Trump China visit
Despite claims from Anthropic that Chinese AI firm DeepSeek distilled its Claude model to improve their own models, and further evidence that DeepSeek supported Chinese military and intelligence operations, the US has held back on adding the firm to the Entity List.
Exclusive Reuters reporting, citing people familiar with the matter, claims the White House has avoided adding DeepSeek and more than 100 other Chinese firms to the blacklist to avoid inflaming tensions between the two countries any further.
The White House was recommended to add the firms to the Entity List by an interagency committee, but the administration avoided taking action ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to China, where he met with Xi Jinping.
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