Report: Liang Wenfeng planned independent DeepSeek compute chips before Huawei persuaded him otherwise
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-20
According to an unverified report, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng had fairly serious intentions to produce independent "Whale Compute Units," but after surveying the abysmal state of Huawei's hardware, was persuaded by Huawei — citing capacity scarcity — to collaborate instead. The post frames this as a potential "DeepSeek moment" for chips.
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