Big news just dropped: A major AI lab is gearing up to unveil their latest model, and here's the twist—it was trained using those cutting-edge Blackwell chips that weren't exactly supposed to make it past customs.

Word on the street is they got creative with the logistics. Chips sitting in overseas data centers? Pulled out, broken down, then quietly routed to their destination. Not your typical supply chain story, that's for sure.

This whole situation highlights how desperate the race for compute power has become. When you can't buy the hardware through normal channels, apparently some teams find... alternative routes. Makes you wonder how many other projects are running on gear that took the scenic route to get there.