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China's Kimi K3 was reportedly trained on smuggled NVIDIA Blackwell chips — around both countries' controls

Moonshot AI's frontier model, the biggest open-weight model ever, was allegedly trained on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware acquired around both US export controls and China's own import restrictions. The compute-smuggling story behind the model.

Lena Fischer · Jul 30 · 9 min

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the RTX 5070 Ti is the 16GB card most local-AI builders should actually buy — here's why

It's the value middle of the Blackwell lineup: 16GB of fast GDDR7, NVFP4 support, and enough speed to run the 14B tier comfortably without paying 5090 money. Is it the right local-AI card for you?

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 28 · 9 min

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NVFP4 is Nvidia's 4-bit trick that gets FP8 accuracy at 3x the speed — but only on Blackwell

The new 4-bit format baked into RTX 50-series and Blackwell chips runs AI models at up to 3x the inference throughput of FP8, at nearly the same accuracy. Here's how it works and why it's exclusive to your newest GPU.

Lena Fischer · Jul 28 · 8 min

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the RTX 5080 is newer, faster on paper, and the wrong pick for local AI. here's the 8GB reason why

Blackwell versus the old flagship, and for once the newer card loses. The 5080's 16GB caps what you can run; the 4090's 24GB doesn't. For local models, capacity beats the spec sheet — with the measured numbers to prove it.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 22 · 9 min

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At $1,999 the RTX 5090 is an easy yes for local AI. Nobody will sell you one at $1,999

Measured at 102.7 tokens/sec — double a 3090 — with the only 32GB of VRAM in consumer land. Then the street price doubles the MSRP and the whole verdict flips. Both answers, with the math.

Lena Fischer · Jul 22 · 9 min