Azar: transparent chip diffusion strategy backfired as China pivots models to Huawei chips
beffjezos · x · 2026-11-12
Azar (beffjezos) says he once bought the chip diffusion argument — keeping China dependent on US chips — but the strategy was too transparent, and China is now pivoting to running its models on Huawei silicon.
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