Quick Test Suggests Opus 5.5 Classifiers Block Kernel Requests for Huawei, Trainium Chips

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-23

A developer tested Opus 5.5's safety classifiers by asking it to write flash attention kernels for various AI chips: NVIDIA B300, AMD MI355X and TPU7X requests passed, while Huawei 950DT and Amazon Trainium3 were refused. The poster speculates Anthropic is specifically targeting Chinese hardware, possibly reflecting Dario Amadei's stance on China, and calls for systematic classifier probing. Results are from a quick test and not yet verified.

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