> What is truly amazing here is the fact that they trained this entirely on Huawei Ascend chips

Has any of these outfits ever publicly stated they used Nvidia chips? As in the non-officially obtained 1s. No.

> US attempts to contain Chinese AI tech totally failed. Not only that, they cost Nvidia possibly trillions of dollars of exports over the next decade, as the Chinese govt called the American bluff and now actively disallow imports of Nvidia chips

Sort of. It's all a front. On both sides. China still ALWAYS had access to Nvidia chips - whether that's the "smuggled" 1s or they run it in another country. It's not costing Nvidia much. The opening of China sales for Nvidia likewise isn't as much of a boon. It's already included.

> At a time when Trump admin is trying to do whatever it can to reduce the US trade imbalance with China

Again, it's a front. It's about news and headlines. Just like when China banned lobsters from a certain country, the only thing that happened was that they went to Hong Kong or elsewhere, got rebadged and still went in.