Forensic Claim Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax Trained on Banned Blackwell Chips — Disputed

felipesuch · x · 2026-11-13

@willdepue claims 'conclusive forensic evidence' that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group trained their newest models on NVIDIA's export-banned Blackwell chips, based on hidden GPU signatures in model initial weights. @felipesuch pushes back: the weight-initialization pattern only reveals the sharding cluster size at init, and training could scale up afterwards. Unverified, but consequential for export-control enforcement if true.

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