Huawei's Answer to NVIDIA

Huawei is ramping up in the AI hardware race…

In this edition we’ll be covering…

• Huawei’s new AI chips

• A breakdown on how to create a consultant with Claude Projects

• A tutorial on how to build full stack apps with Replit Agent

• 5 more pieces of AI news

• 3 more AI tools

• And much more…

The Latest in AI

Blocked by the U.S.? Huawei’s Building a Workaround Empire

Despite U.S. sanctions tightening the screws, Huawei isn’t slowing down.

The company is prepping its next move with the Ascend 910D, a new AI chip designed to go toe-to-toe with NVIDIA’s powerful H100, even as supply chain restrictions stack higher.

Here’s what’s happening:

• Huawei expects the first samples of the Ascend 910D to roll out by late May. It’s packed with packaging tech that stitches multiple silicon dies together for a performance boost, but it’s also more power-hungry than NVIDIA’s H100.

• Cut off from TSMC and the latest chip-making tools, Huawei is doubling down on new system designs instead of chasing smaller chips.

• Beijing’s push for self-sufficiency means major Chinese data centers and tech firms (like TikTok’s parent ByteDance) are snapping up Huawei’s Ascend chips, despite some admitted performance gaps compared to NVIDIA’s H100.

• While Huawei’s ambition is clear, actually mass-producing high-end chips without top-tier equipment remains a massive hurdle. Creative engineering may help bridge the gap for now.

So What?

Huawei’s not trying to beat NVIDIA with a single knockout chip, it’s building workarounds.

By scaling horizontally (packing more chips together) and improving overall system design, Huawei is showing that sheer force (and state backing) can still keep China in the AI hardware race.

With the 910D launch looming, Huawei’s strategy isn’t just survival, it’s staying dangerous.

Get Your Hands Dirty!

Stop Starting Over and Set Up Your Persistent Consultant with Claude

A lot of y’all are seriously sleeping on Claude projects.

Projects let you create dedicated workspaces where Claude has persistent access to your important files, documents, and instructions across multiple conversations.

These are perfect for research initiatives, content creation pipelines, data analysis workflows, or any ongoing work where you need Claude to maintain context across multiple sessions.

Here’s how you can create a Claude project that acts as your personal consultant:

1. Navigate to Claude (or use Claude Desktop).

2. Open up the left sidebar, hit Projects, then New Project on the top right. Name your project and give it a goal, like “you are specialized consultant for {your topic here}.”

3. Set project instructions and upload project knowledge. These can be any files you want to start chatting with or use as reference.

4. Begin chatting away!

Tool Spotlight

How to Build Full Stack Apps with Replit Agent

Honestly I forgot Replit was this good…

To set some context, Replit Agent is an AI assistant that codes, sets up, and even ships products with natural language.

If GitHub Copilot is a helpful co-pilot, Replit Agent might be your full project team.

Here’s how you can build full stack apps with Replit Agent:

1. Go to Replit and create an account.

2. Once inside the IDE, hit the “Replit Agent” button on the dashboard.

3. Type in your prompt, no special commands needed, just say whatever’s on your mind.

4. Validate the app plan.

5. Let it build! You can tweak it with natural language.

Some real world use cases can also include:

• Learn While Building: Ask “Why are we using Flask?” and get an explanation mid-project.

• Database Setups Made Easy: Quickly spin up Postgres, MongoDB, or other databases.

• Generate Documentation: Documenting code or APIs is important for future use but can be tedious to write.

🔥 Pro Tip: You can even deploy your app right from Replit once you want to share it with the world!

Quick Bites

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

CEO Aravind Srinivas said last week on the TBPN podcast that one reason Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app. This so it can sell premium ads.

With the release of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic promoted a new benchmark: beating Pokémon. Now, Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro has substantially surpassed Claude's progress on that benchmark.

Adobe’s flagship event, MAX, touched down in London again this week, where the brand announced several updates across its Creative Cloud suite of apps, including new features in Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Firefly, its suite of generative AI models.

"Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could take control from humans: "People haven't understood what's coming."

A recent experiment by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University staffed a fake software company entirely with AI Agents and the results were laughably chaotic.

Trending Tools

❤️ Lovable 2.0 - Lovable is now smarter because of the chat mode agent, multiplayer so you can collaborate with your team, and better at helping you keep your projects more secure with the security scan feature.

📔 Collate - Collate is a free, offline PDF assistant designed for everyday learners, students, and professionals who want to take control of their PDFs.

🤖 Sample Google ADK Implementation with Eleven Labs MCP Server - Lightweight repo explaining how to use Google ADK and MCP (done by yours truly :))

The Neural Network

According to our last poll, it looks like most of you will be using the new Gemini Deep Research for Personal Learning (good choice).

In other news..

These are the type of questions I ask ChatGPT too 👇️ 

Until we Type Again…

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