Ex-OpenAI researcher claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax trained on Blackwell despite export curbs
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-11-13
Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says he has found strong forensic evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group all trained their newest frontier models on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, despite U.S. export controls. The quoting poster's "shell companies all the way down" remark implies the chips may have reached these labs through layered shell entities. The claim is unverified.
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