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DeepSeek aims to reduce reliance on Nvidia hardware
DeepSeek is releasing its programming infrastructure and libraries for Huawei's Ascend platform, including support for the TileLang backend. This initiative aims to simplify the use of competing domestic hardware and lessen Nvidia's market dominance. DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng noted that training a large-scale model could necessitate tens of thousands of processors, indicating significant challenges in efficiency and coordination. Nevertheless, through open-source software development and reported large-scale inference deployments, they are working to build a practical alternative ecosystem for Chinese AI research organizations.
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