Dylan Patel on

ascend

2 quotes · Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

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  1. Patel says Huawei trained significant models on Ascend chips before 2020 Trump ban took full effect.

    “The the full ban. And so they were only able to make a small volume of these chips, but they had trained significant models on these chips that they made then.”

    7:15 · a16z · 22 Sep 2025 · permalink
  2. Patel says China could build a bigger model than any US lab next year using 600,000 domestic Ascend chips.

    “You know? So so if they put them all in one cluster, they could have a bigger model than any of the labs next year.”

    27:46 · Dwarkesh Patel · 2 Oct 2024 · permalink

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