Unemployment Labs Reports Blackwell Patterns in Chinese AI Models

An Unemployment Labs analysis by Will DePue, published November 12, 2026, found initialization patterns consistent with NVIDIA’s export-controlled Blackwell GPUs in six open-weight models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group. The analysis associates DeepSeek-V4-Flash and MiniMax-M3 with initialization on B200 or B300 chips, and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K3, Kimi K3.1-Pro and Ling-3.1-flash with GB200 or GB300 chips. The matches identify the hardware layout behind the starting weights...