Cambricon MLU590 - China's Inference Accelerator
Full specs and analysis of the Cambricon MLU590 - 192GB HBM2e, ~2,400 GB/s bandwidth, TSMC 7nm, and what it means for AI inference outside the NVIDIA ecosystem.
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DeepSeek Trained Its Next Model on Banned Nvidia Blackwell Chips - Washington Wants Answers
A senior Trump administration official confirms DeepSeek trained its upcoming AI model on Nvidia's most advanced Blackwell chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, despite US export controls banning the hardware from reaching China.
Anthropic Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Ran 24,000 Fake Accounts to Steal Claude's Capabilities
Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks using 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges with Claude. MiniMax ran the largest operation at 13 million exchanges. None of the three companies have responded.
