Former OpenAI Researcher Says 6 Chinese Models Bear Blackwell Training Fingerprints
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Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says six Chinese AI models released since April 2026 bear training fingerprints of the Nvidia Blackwell generation, and has published verification code on GitHub. Among them, DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi K3 are claimed to match genuine Blackwell chip characteristics exactly. According to The Decoder, senior researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have independently verified the finding. There are currently no reports of public responses from the model developers involved or Nvidia.
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Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says six Chinese models released since April 2026 carry Nvidia Blackwell-generation traits, and has published verification code on GitHub; DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi K3 are claimed to match real Blackwell chips exactly, and senior researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have independently verified the findings.
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