Claim: forensic 'GPU fingerprints' show Chinese labs trained on banned NVIDIA Blackwell chips

marvinvonhagen · x · 2026-11-13

willdepue claims to have found 'conclusive forensic evidence' that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group trained their newest models on NVIDIA's most advanced Blackwell chips, which are barred from export to China — arguing nearly every model carries a hidden signature of the GPU that trained it. marvinvonhagen joked he went from 'honeypot target to hitman target in one tweet.' The claim is unverified and should be treated as an unconfirmed allegation.

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