Dev claims forensic proof top 4 Chinese labs trained on export-banned Blackwell GPUs

wightmanr · x · 2026-11-13

Developer willdepue claims to have 'conclusive forensic evidence' that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group trained their newest models on NVIDIA's export-banned Blackwell chips, based on his finding that models carry hidden signatures of the GPU that trained them. A replier counters that the GPUs could have been rented in datacenters outside China — a known loophole behind the booming SE Asian datacenter business. Claim is unverified.

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