Researcher claims GPU 'fingerprint' evidence shows Chinese labs trained on banned Blackwell chips
willdepue · x · 2026-11-13
Will Depue claims conclusive forensic evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group built their newest models on NVIDIA Blackwell chips barred from export to China. His method: weight initialization patterns form a unique GPU-and-seed 'fingerprint' that survives training into the published model. The claim is unverified.
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