DeepSeek reportedly used Ascend hardware for language-model training
A user linked the claim to their earlier joke about an AI agent hand-writing Chinese NPU kernels to improve performance on poor compute.
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A user joked about an agent improving performance on poor compute by hand-writing Chinese NPU kernels. They later said DeepSeek “ended up doing this” on Ascend hardware, but for training language models.
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