DEEPSEEK PLANS TO TRAIN ITS NEXT-GENERATION MODEL ON HUAWEI ASCEND CHIPS

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DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend AI chips to pretrain DeepSeek V5. Ascend chips have previously been used primarily for inference rather than pretraining. This will be an important test of whether Chinese AI accelerators can support the full pre-training of a frontier large language model. A successful run could reduce Chinese AI developers' dependence on Nvidia hardware and strengthen Huawei's position as an alternative for advanced AI computing.