DeepSeek reportedly open-sources AI tools for Huawei Ascend chips
Reuters reports that DeepSeek said it partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Ascend chips. A separate post says DeepSeek has released an open-source stack for the chips.
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Reuters reports that DeepSeek said it partnered with Huawei on Ascend chip programming tools as Chinese tech firms seek alternatives to Nvidia’s ecosystem. A separate post says DeepSeek has open-sourced tools including TileLang-Ascend, which aims to make it easier to write optimized AI kernels. The post claims the Ascend implementations approach hardware-limit performance across several workloads.
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