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

Our forensic analysis of publicly released AI models finds evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group have gained access to NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, despite restrictions on exporting these chips to China, and are using that hardware…
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Published2 h ago (Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:56:11 GMT)
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