DeepSeek Plans to Train Its Next-Generation Model on Huawei Ascend Chips

According to industry sources, DeepSeek plans to use Huawei’s Ascend AI chips to pre-train its next-generation model, DeepSeek V5, marking a significant shift from previous inference-only use. If confirmed, this move would serve as a major test of whether domestic Chinese AI accelerators can support the full pre-training of a frontier large language model. Open article →