Epoch Brief covers Huawei chips, Nvidia's GDP effect, and GPT-6 Astra benchmarks

Epoch AI's newsletter reports that Huawei is far behind Nvidia and is unlikely to catch up this decade due to export controls. It also finds official US GDP statistics understate growth by about 0.3 percentage points over the past year, and that GPT-6 Astra set new records on Epoch's evaluations, including the Epoch Capabilities Index.