Researcher claims GPU 'fingerprints' prove top Chinese labs trained on export-banned Blackwell chips
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-11-13
Will Depue claims 'conclusive forensic evidence' that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group built their newest models on NVIDIA's export-banned Blackwell chips. His method: weight initialization patterns depend on the exact GPU + seed combination, leaving a hardware 'fingerprint' that survives training into released models. Context from lucyfarnik: current export rules only bar GPUs from physically entering China or Chinese ownership — companies in Thailand and elsewhere buy GPUs, set up data centers, and rent access to Chinese labs. Claims are unverified.
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