China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek on Wednesday open-sourced a suite of core tools tailored for Huawei Technologies’ Ascend AI chips, marking a step forward in the country’s push to end dependence on processors from US giant Nvidia amid US export curbs. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released six software modules that mirror its prior open-source tools for Nvidia’s AI chips, aiming to…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released a suite of tools designed for Huawei Technologies' Ascend AI chips, moving towards reducing China's reliance on Nvidia processors. These tools include six software modules that mirror DeepSeek's previous open-source tools for Nvidia chips. Among the releases is an Ascend-compatible version of TileLang, a custom programming language aimed at simplifying the development of high-performance kernels for GPUs and central processing units.
Additionally, DeepSeek unveiled a set of libraries for high-throughput training and inference on Ascend chips, enabling efficient large-scale cross-device communication and improving the efficiency of long-context processing and data filtering. The new tools are said to approach "the hardware limits" in performance in various tests.
DeepSeek's development of Ascend-facing infrastructure was achieved through collaboration with Huawei, aiming to create a "highly available software ecosystem for more AI chips."
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