# Six Chinese AI models carry Blackwell fingerprints in their published weights, researcher says

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/chinese-ai-models-blackwell-fingerprint-depue-report>
> Published: 2026-11-13 20:23:46+00:00

# Six Chinese AI models carry Blackwell fingerprints in their published weights, researcher says

**Will DePue says starting-weight patterns in DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax and Ant models match Blackwell layouts that earlier models from the same labs do not.**

        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Will DePue (@willdepue) published forensic evidence on November 12th, 2026, that he says links six models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group to Nvidia Blackwell hardware. DePue, who says on his personal site that he helped create Sora and Sora 2 at OpenAI and helped post-train 4o, o3 and GPT-5, posted the claim in a thread on X and published the full analysis through Unemployment Labs, one of his current projects.

Photo attached to Will DePue's X post announcing the checkpoint-forensics analysis. Original image from @willdepue.…