Blogger disputes report that DeepSeek trained R2 on Huawei Ascend

Blogger teortaxesTex systematically disputes the report that DeepSeek tried training an R2 model on Huawei Ascend chips, arguing he is 90% sure no standalone R2 ever existed and that many details don't hold up.

2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-25 · 2 related posts

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