fact F-0043 Verified
The DePue report states its own limits: initialization is not training, and location, ownership and legality are not established
Verified from the report text: the fingerprint "supports, without proving, the inference that Blackwell also performed the training"; "The weights also cannot reveal who owned the chips or where they were located. Blackwell systems can be rented from data centers outside China"; the flags "are not a finding that any law was broken." Specially configured AMD MI300X is named as the only alternative identified; excluded for DeepSeek-V4-Flash only. The method works only on open-weight models (closed US models cannot be checked).
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- claim C-0043 DePue: "conclusive forensic evidence" the top 4 Chinese labs built their newest models on Blackwell
- claim C-0044 DePue report: six models from four labs were initialized on Blackwell-class hardware (148/152 SMs); earlier models read as Hopper
- claim C-0047 DePue: "it’s clear that the export bans are deeply failing"
- claim C-0049 Daniel Franke: the forensics "proves nothing of any political consequence" because initialization could be done anywhere
- theory T-0010 Nvidia’s China channel: diversion as business model, espionage as distraction