DeepSeek, Huawei Partner on AI Chip Designs; Ascend 950DT by 2026 — SkimNews
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- DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips, according to two people familiar with the matter.
- DeepSeek plans to start using Huawei's Ascend 950DT chip for AI model pre-training as soon as the end of 2026.
Why it matters: DeepSeek anchoring pre-training on Huawei's Ascend 950DT would deepen China's domestic AI compute stack, moving a frontier-model lab toward hardware alternatives beyond NVIDIA. The chip-design collaboration also gives Huawei direct design feedback from a high-profile AI lab.
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