DeepSeek's New Model May Be Trained on Huawei Ascend Chips

Analyst teortaxesTex suggests DeepSeek's new model was likely trained on Huawei Ascend hardware after it open-sourced near-optimal kernels, with Astra analysis noting the open-source stack is remarkably close to fully reproducing frontier training.

2026-09-30 ~ 2026-09-30 · 3 related posts

• DeepSeek's releases reportedly come surprisingly close to a full Ascend stack for frontier training — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-30
• Rumor: DeepSeek's rumored single-GPU model may have been trained on Ascend — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-30
• DeepSeek's near-hardware-limit kernels hint at a new model, possibly Ascend-trained — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-30