Report: DeepSeek aims to pretrain on Huawei Ascend 950DT, replacing Nvidia by late 2026
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-10-20
Per an industry roundup, DeepSeek reportedly wants to pretrain its models on Huawei chips, with the Ascend 950DT replacing Nvidia GPUs from late 2026. The same post flags CoreWeave's debt as a warning sign for the entire credit-financed AI boom.
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