DeepSeek Now Training on Huawei Ascend 950 Chips
WebAssemblyMan · reddit · 2026-09-30
A Reddit post claims DeepSeek is now training its models on Huawei's Ascend 950 chips, quoting Liang Wenfeng's 26-month-old line: "Someone must step onto the frontier." If accurate, it marks a further shift away from NVIDIA hardware in frontier training. The claim is unverified by official sources.
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