The Minutes of Dylan Patel on ascend https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/ascend/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on ascend: 2 verbatim quotes between October 2024 and September 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:22 +0000 Patel says Huawei trained significant models on Ascend chips before 2020 Trump ban took full effect. https://minutesof.com/q/9871fa14-c7f3-4c9f-a84a-0f093f92a2ce/ https://minutesof.com/q/9871fa14-c7f3-4c9f-a84a-0f093f92a2ce/ “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.” — a16z Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:01:51 +0000 ascend Patel says China could build a bigger model than any US lab next year using 600,000 domestic Ascend chips. https://minutesof.com/q/856f2514-a20b-461e-a657-ed57842c7d91/ https://minutesof.com/q/856f2514-a20b-461e-a657-ed57842c7d91/ “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.” — Dwarkesh Patel Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:59:36 +0000 ascend