Roman Levandovsky 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇨🇦

.@willripleyCNN with A+ reporting on the NVDIA mess 11.12.26

It’s just the beginning of what we’re going to learn.

Nobody is even remotely paying attn yet to what Collette Kress being installed as interim CEO even means

We fired @TMobile yesterday for partnering with Elon Musk’s Starlink. We hired @ATT instead. $TMUS $T businessinsider.com/att-ceo-…

I have a major result to share. I’ve found conclusive forensic evidence that the top 4 Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group—have built their newest models on NVIDIA’s most advanced Blackwell chips, which are barred from export to China. This sounds insane, but I discovered that almost every AI model carries a hidden signature of the GPU that trained it. When a model is first set up, the starting values of its weights are laid out in a pattern that depends on the exact GPU. Each combination of GPU and seed number produces a unique pattern—a sort of fingerprint of the hardware used to create the model. Traces of that pattern survive training into the published model. Again, this evidence isn’t based on any insider information or leaking. It’s based on a forensic analysis of the model weights released by the companies themselves. I searched more than six trillion combinations of chip layout and seed number and matched them to open-weights models. In doing so, I found conclusive evidence that six Chinese AI models—including DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K3, and MiniMax-M3—were initialized on NVIDIA Blackwell systems. Four of the models match Grace Blackwell, the GB200 and GB300 parts in NVIDIA’s flagship liquid-cooled rack-scale systems. I then verified these results on real hardware. Running unmodified PyTorch with the seeds I’d recovered, a Blackwell B300 reproduced DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s untouched starting weights bit for bit, and a rented GB200 reproduced Kimi K3’s to a correlation of 0.999995. A Hopper H100 reproduced none of DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s, and changing the seed by one broke the match. (DeepSeek’s seed is 953049583 by the way.) The method also was verified to match 24 known open-weights models to the hardware that developers said they used. It is exceedingly unlikely that these results are a coincidence. Across six trillion combinations, the best accidental match should reach only about 8 sigma (i.e., eight standard deviations above what random chance would produce). The real matches range from 49 to 1,385 sigma, and even the weakest single test hits 20. These were data-center-scale training runs. With some analysis of release schedules and model details, I estimate that the largest, Kimi K3 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, used 2,000 to 3,000 Blackwell GPUs each. Clusters of this size cost on the order of $150 to $200 million each to buy, and across these labs alone would add up to more than half a billion dollars of export-controlled GPUs, not counting experimental compute or otherwise. It’s quite likely that we see multi-billion dollar expenditure on export-controlled GPUs. I am highly confident in this result, and it has been independently verified by senior researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic. You can read the full report at unemploymentlabs.com/checkpo…. There is much more I’ve identified about these models through other forms of checkpoint forensics like this, and will have more to share soon.

I think politicians aren't scared of his money anymore, either. He donated $474 million to the GOP in the midterms ($224 million on Ken Paxton alone) & they all lost. The posts of Texas Gov, Lieutenant Gov, AG, Comptroller, & Land Commissioner all flipped to Dems. Game over.

This wins the internet today.

全网都在关心老黄到底睡了几个，但真正让华尔街后背发凉的，根本不是裤裆里那点事，而是这起黑天鹅撕开的三个残酷真相：$NVDA 第一个真相：为什么董事会敢在96小时内，把硅谷唯一的“造物主”扫地出门？ 很多人想不通：老黄一手创办英伟达33年，把一家做显卡的小作坊干成万亿帝国，怎么说踢就踢？ 去翻一下英伟达的公司章程就懂了——老黄死在了自己的“现代企业美德”上。 英伟达没有AB股（双重股权结构），黄仁勋手里只有个位数百分比的股份和投票权。按章程，董事会11名董事，只要6个人举手，就能直接罢免CEO，甚至不需要任何理由。 对比一下隔壁Meta：扎克伯格死死攥着超级投票权，同样的丑闻如果发生在小扎身上，董事会连他的皮毛都动不了。 创始人不设AB股，顺风顺水时叫“治理透明的美德”，一旦出事，就是被人一剑封喉的“命门”。 11月8日董事会还在喊“完全信任”，4天后直接6票过半斩草除根，连董事席位都没给他留。 第二个真相：老黄出局，最先断粮的可能是国内的AI算力。 很多人还在猜谁接班（顺便辟个谣：昨天疯传的Jay Puri今年6月就退休了，连8-K文件都没有的假消息别再传了），但对中文圈来说，真正致命的暗雷在华盛顿。 过去几年，顶着巨大的政治压力在华盛顿来回游说、替对华芯片销售撕开裂缝的，主要就是黄仁勋本人。 现在他倒了，国会正在借题发挥，推动在今年的《国防授权法案》（NDAA）里塞进一批极其严苛的先进AI芯片出口限制条款。 老黄留下的这个游说真空，临时顶上的CFO克雷斯补不上，未来的新CEO更不敢碰。我的个人判断：在国安调查的阴影下，英伟达对华特供芯片的窗口，大概率要彻底焊死了。 第三个真相：英伟达正在滑向“2018年的英特尔时刻”。 过去十年，美股有两家巨头因为CEO职场私生活换帅，结局天差地别： ▪️ 2019年麦当劳赶走Easterbrook，股价照样涨——因为卖汉堡不需要技术信仰，谁当CEO都能转； ▪️ 2018年英特尔赶走Krzanich，让CFO临时接盘，结果技术路线一路崩盘，直接错失整个移动与AI时代。 不幸的是，英伟达是比英特尔更极端的“技术独裁”公司。 5天后（11月17日）就是Q3财报夜，这是没有黄仁勋的第一个夜晚。纯财务出身的克雷斯要独自面对华尔街的拷问： 董事会什么时候能选出懂技术的掌舵人？ 失去灵魂人物后，下季度指引会不会下调？ 微软、Meta这些超级大客户有没有动摇？ 有人问老黄会不会像1997年的乔布斯、或者去年的奥特曼一样杀回来？ 别做梦了。 哪怕路透社说绝大多数员工盼他留任，哪怕他还是第四大股东，但这次背着国家安全相关的调查，性质已经彻底变了。 皮衣封存，那个一人决定全球算力走向的时代，真的结束了。 11月17日的财报夜，大家系好安全带。