Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China's most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen! | TechCrunch
TechCrunch's Tim Fernholz reports on research by Will DePue of Unemployment Labs finding that leading Chinese open-weight models, including Moonshot's Kimi K3 and DeepSeek's V4, bear fingerprints of training on Blackwell chips the U.S. bans from export to China. The piece ties this to Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia after admitting an affair with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whose company is implicated in chip smuggling, and to estimates that some two million advanced chips reached China through schemes hiding their destination.
