DEEPSEEK BUILDS FOR HUAWEI ASCEND

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

DeepSeek plans to start rebuilding the software ecosystem around Nvidia's hardware so that Chinese chips become genuinely easier to use and capable of training frontier AI models. Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem provides developers with a mature set of tools for writing programs, optimizing performance, and getting thousands of GPUs to work together efficiently. DeepSeek is trying to create a layer of abstraction between models and the underlying GPU hardware that could potentially sit on top of either Nvidia GPUs or Huawei Ascend chips. If all goes well, the cost and difficulty of moving AI workloads from Nvidia to Chinese AI hardware could fall significantly.