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aviinuo • today at 5:22 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Nvidia GPUs let you load encrypted weights onto them and to decrypt on chip so Google would need to have some sort of Nvidia management firmware attack to read from HBM while the GPU is live


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jayd16 • today at 6:25 PM

Isn't distillation more of a black box type affair?

zeroxfe • today at 6:50 PM

Distillation does not require access to weights.

binlog • today at 5:41 PM

Doesn’t really matter what happens at the GPU level when Google can see all API traffic.

worldsavior • today at 5:42 PM

Except google cloud doesn't use Nvidia GPUs but TPUs.

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