Report: DeepSeek V5 to be pretrained almost entirely on Huawei Ascend chips, shunning Nvidia
kimmonismus · x · 2026-11-03
Citing a report, kimmonismus notes DeepSeek plans to pretrain its next-gen model V5 on Huawei Ascend chips. He frames this as China's next step toward independence from U.S./NVIDIA silicon — keeping development domestic preserves leverage (e.g., rare earths) without relying on Western goodwill. Unconfirmed by DeepSeek.
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