Former OpenAI researcher says he found Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints hidden inside six Chinese AI models
Former OpenAI researcher says he found Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints hidden inside six Chinese AI models
Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says he has produced the first technical evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group are using Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs despite US export controls. His forensic method reads characteristic chip signatures directly from published model weights. He estimates the hardware behind the five training runs cost more than half a billion dollars.
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AdmittedSum of both 160 ≥ twice the threshold 152
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- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
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- passed：分析中国AI模型训练所用GPU硬件指纹
- Why it was chosen
- Traces the GPU used for training back through model weight initialisation, offering a reproducible forensic method for the chip export control debate.
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Source: The Decoder · the-decoder.com