DePue's forensic check of public model weights from labs like DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group revealed numerical patterns matching NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, despite U.S. export bans to China. Six models released since April 2026, including DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi K3, showed these hardware fingerprints, a shift from older Hopper chips in prior versions. While the report offers strong statistical evidence from initialization traces, critics note it confirms starting hardware but not full training, and legal rentals outside China remain possible. The findings highlight how open releases can expose training secrets amid global chip tensions.
will depue@willdepue
I have a major result to share. I’ve found conclusive forensic evidence that the top 4 Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group—have built their newest models on NVIDIA’s most advanced Blackwell chips, which are barred from export to China. This sounds insane,…
MTS@MTSlive
SITUATION DETECTED: Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says he has found strong forensic evidence that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group all trained their newest frontier models on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, despite U.S. export controls.
NIK@ns123abc
>Jensen Huang gets ousted from Nvidia literally 12 hours ago >OpenAI and Anthropic immediately form an alliance to back congress to ban AI chip exports to china This was a targeted takedown.