Will Depue's Blackwell 'forensic evidence' claim on DeepSeek hits snag: V4.1-Flash not cracked
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-15
- Will Depue claimed "conclusive forensic evidence" that DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group trained their newest models on NVIDIA Blackwell chips banned from export to China.
- He later admitted DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (released September, after the models in his report) hasn't been cracked yet — his report's appendix says no starting weights were recovered, contradicting the hype.
- Observers like teortaxesTex are pressing him to explain his cryptic "I think I might've cracked it... Looks like it might be NVIDIA" tweet from 40 hours ago.
- Unverified and contested; treat as drama, not confirmed evidence.
Related event: Alleged Forensic Proof of DeepSeek Training on Blackwell Chips Falls Apart(4 posts)→
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