# Analysis finds Blackwell-compatible traces in six Chinese AI models

_Published Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM EST · AI, Policy · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

![Table of ten models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group. Each lab’s earlier model was created on NVIDIA Hopper and its newest models on NVIDIA Blackwell. — Primary](https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics-og.png?v=4)

Unemploymentlabs.com reports finding numerical patterns compatible with Nvidia Blackwell hardware in six publicly released models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group. Its analysis reconstructs initial model values and matches their arrangement to hardware configurations, providing technical evidence of access to advanced computing hardware.

The researchers reproduced matches for DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi K3 on physical Blackwell chips. The method identifies hardware used to initialize weights, rather than proving which chips performed subsequent training. Specially configured AMD hardware remains an alternative for five models. The findings do not establish chip location, ownership, access arrangements or export-control violations.

## Sources

- [unemploymentlabs.com](https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics)

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