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Report links Alice Huang firms to DeepSeek and Blackwell chips

First seen Nov 12 Updated Nov 12, 23:31 UTC Heat 78 medium evidence

The Information reports, via Techmeme, that firms tied to Alice Huang recently invested in DeepSeek and aim to supply Nvidia Blackwell chips, which cannot legally be sold to China. Separately, Unemployment Labs claims its analysis of open weights from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group shows signs of Blackwell training. Both are claims from reports, not confirmed by the companies.

Who should care
Developers using Chinese open-weight models, and those following chip export controls.

Timeline

Coverage

  1. Sources: firms tied to Alice Huang recently invested in DeepSeek, to forge closer ties and supply Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which are banned from sale to China (The Information)techmeme.com · Techmeme
  2. Analysis of open weights: six models from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax, and Ant Group released since April carry fingerprints of export-controlled Blackwell GPUs (Will DePue/Unemployment Labs)techmeme.com · Techmeme

Discussion

  1. Top Chinese AI labs built their newest models on Nvidia's Blackwell chipstwitter.com · HN · 10 pts · 3 comments
  2. Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUsunemploymentlabs.com · HN · 64 pts · 14 comments

Evidence

Medium evidence: several community reports point the same way, but there is no official confirmation yet.

Details written Nov 12, 23:29 UTC from the sources listed above.