On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
3 things Dylan Patel said, verbatim, from August 29, 2026 to September 14, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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In their own words
“Clearly, the government is starting and politicians are starting to do that. Whereas China is not going to slow down AI. In fact, the only thing they're going to do is accelerate it.”
on US moves to slow AI development while China accelerates
In their own words
“If you believe in RSI, you believe in the labs are the most effective user of compute and can generate the most value from the compute, then the only thing that's gonna happen is centralization of compute. And that's scary as hell.”
In their own words
“Chinese companies today are not that far behind in AI models at least perceivable by the public relative to the amount of compute they have, right? The leading Chinese labs have 100-200 megawatts total of compute at most, whereas Anthropic is, you know, nearly 5 gigawatts by the end of the year.”
on Chinese AI labs keeping pace despite far less compute than Anthropic
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