prediction claim
The speaker suggests that if AI takeoff takes longer than implied, China could catch up substantially in semiconductors, which would eventually translate into greater compute capacity.
Dylan Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026
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“you know, if takeoff is not as fast as sort of you're implying, but actually it takes longer than”
“and ultimately China.”
“will catch up drastically”
“on the semiconductor side,”
“which then is compute at some point.”Play from 39:54Report a misattribution
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