Still waiting for a convincing, openly disclosed pretrain run on Ascend chips
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-14
The author is still waiting for a convincing ("not Meituan") openly disclosed pretraining run on Huawei Ascends to settle the debate over whether China truly depends on Nvidia. Strategically it changes nothing — it's all a question of numbers — but the recurring argument is annoying.
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