An independent research team, Unemployment Labs, analyzed publicly available AI model weights and found that the latest models from Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group may have used NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for initialization or even large-scale training. The weights retain numerical features matching specific NVIDIA GPU architectures, providing new technical evidence for speculation that these companies have obtained Blackwell chips restricted by U.S. export controls.
