TechCrunch · AI· Tim Fernholz·· 2 h agoPicksAI score82
Research claims DeepSeek and Moonshot models show fingerprints of export-banned Nvidia Blackwell chips
Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh oh, Jensen!
AI summary
A research effort by Unemployment Labs, led by former OpenAI researcher Will DePue, claims the openly released weights of DeepSeek V4, Moonshot Kimi K3, MiniMax and Ant Group models bear fingerprints of training on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, which are banned from export to China.
Why it matters
A researcher's weight-fingerprint analysis suggests Chinese open-weight models were trained on export-banned Blackwell GPUs, raising questions about how far chip controls reach.
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