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Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models—uh oh, Jensen!
Why it’s here: Covers AI chip export controls, smuggling of banned Nvidia Blackwell chips into China, and federal enforcement scrutiny (Commerce/BIS), squarely within AI policy and export-control scope.
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2d agoTechCrunchExport-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models—uh oh, Jensen!A new weight-forensics study by Unemployment Labs claims top Chinese open-weight models were trained on export-banned Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, amid the Megaspeed smuggling scandal and Jensen Huang's departure from Nvidia.1 outletAI32 linked
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- China
- NVIDIA
- Jensen Huang
- Alice Huang
- Megaspeed
- Howard Lutnick
- DeepSeek
- Michael Kratsios
- commerce department
- Moonshot
- Speedmatrix
- Malaysia
- U.S. export control laws
- H200
- Blackwell GPUs