claim C-0050 Contested
DePue rebuttal: 24 of 24 known cases match; training jobs create weights on their own GPUs; renting a Blackwell would still mean using a barred chip
“Even if a Chinese lab did rent a Blackwell just to initialize its weights it would still be using a chip that is barred from export to China!”Exact wording, per S-0046
Also says Kimi K3's weights came from at least 64 separate processes, each with the 152-SM layout. The report says the 24 cases are a "consistency check rather than a measured accuracy rate". Legal note, not checked in this file: whether remote use of Blackwell abroad violates US export rules depends on the specific rules ("gaps that Congress has not closed", C-0047).
Sources
- S-0046 · X (post) · 2026-11-13 · link (full)
- S-0045 · Unemployment Labs (report) · 2026-11-12 · link (full)
Related
- C-0049 Daniel Franke: the forensics "proves nothing of any political consequence" because initialization could be done anywhere
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- claim C-0049 Daniel Franke: the forensics "proves nothing of any political consequence" because initialization could be done anywhere