Claim that top Chinese labs trained on export-banned Blackwell chips meets open-source rebuttal
JFPuget · x · 2026-11-13
Will Depue claims "conclusive forensic evidence" that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group trained their newest models on NVIDIA Blackwell chips barred from export to China, based on GPU-specific weight-initialization "fingerprints" that survive training. A cited reply pushes back: DeepSeek regularly publishes Blackwell training/inference kernels openly on GitHub — proving something nobody is concealing. The claim's significance remains unverified.
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