The Chinese government has given DeepSeek approval to buy NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips, according to Reuters. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have also reportedly received approval from Beijing to purchase a total of 400,000 H200 GPUs. Reuters said the Chinese authorities are still finalizing the conditions they imposed on the companies to proceed with their orders, so it may take some time before they receive their shipments. In addition, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that his company has yet to receive orders from the aforementioned companies and that he believes China is still finalizing their licenses.

In December 2025, the US government APPROVED NVIDIA to sell second-best H200 processors to Chinese companies investigated in addition to its H20 model in exchange for a 25 percent tariff of those sales. China used to be Exercises local companies from buying NVIDIA’s H20 chips, but this is recent AGREES to import hundreds of thousands of H200 units after Huang’s visit to the country. While Chinese companies try to rely on local manufacturers, such as Huawei and Baidu, for AI chips, NVIDIA’s technology is more advanced. The H200 is second only to NVIDIA’s B200 and is about six times more powerful than the H20.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission is the agency in charge of determining the conditions that Chinese companies must meet to purchase H200 units. Stateside, buying DeepSeek could lead to questions from the authorities. as Reuters note, a legislator has reasonable accused NVIDIA helped DeepSeek develop AI models that were later used by the Chinese military.