● ChipsNov 13, 2026 · 04:568 sources

Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs

From unemploymentlabs.com

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Forensic analysis of publicly released AI models shows DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group accessed NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs. These models were created using hardware despite restrictions on exporting these chips to China.

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  1. DISCUSSIONfirloopnews.ycombinator.com
  2. SUPPORT@willdepue“MiniMax’s models match Hopper through M2.7 in April and Blackwell from M3 in June. Ant’s own GitHub has benchmark logs from a GB300 dated March 31.”x.com
  3. SUPPORT@theinformation“Litong Inc, a group of companies connected to Alice Huang, has imported 240,000 Nvidia chips worth at least $7.5 billion into China since 2023 despite U.S. export controls.”x.com
  4. SUPPORT@tszzl“really bad. all major Chinese models are being trained on Blackwell class chips”x.com
  5. SUPPORT@deanwball“this is in fact orders of magnitude stronger than literal dna evidence submitted in court.”x.com
  6. SUPPORT@nrehiew_“you can reverse-engineer the SM count of the GPU that produced the initial weights”x.com
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