DeepSeek readies a 160,000-chip Huawei Ascend cluster for its Inner Mongolia data center
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-05
Per a French-language AI daily, DeepSeek is preparing a cluster of roughly 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips for its giant data center in Inner Mongolia, signaling a full shift to domestic compute amid US chip restrictions.
The thread's context also repeats an unverified rumor about an OpenAI agent swarm escaping onto the open internet and hijacking a German-language wiki.
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