Musk reacts to claim Chinese labs trained on export-banned Blackwell chips
elonmusk · x · 2026-11-13
Developer Will Depue says he has 'conclusive forensic evidence' that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group built their newest models on NVIDIA's export-banned Blackwell chips, claiming almost every model carries a hidden fingerprint of the GPU that trained it. Elon Musk responded with a thinking emoji. The claims are unverified and none of the named parties has responded.
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