Huawei AI Releases: Pangu Pro MoE

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Huawei release so far: Pangu Pro MoE on Jul 3, 2025. Huawei's Pangu Pro MoE: 72B model trained entirely on Ascend NPUs. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.

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Huawei's Pangu Pro MoE: 72B model trained entirely on Ascend NPUs

Huawei released Pangu Pro, a 72B-parameter MoE trained on its own Ascend NPUs rather than Nvidia or AMD hardware, hitting 1,528 tokens/sec and pretrained on 13T tokens. The panel framed it as the geopolitical open-model story of the week, showing how far Chinese compute stacks have advanced under sanctions.