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  "id": 10882694,
  "title": "China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/chinas-deepseek-open-sources-tools-to-help-huawei-chips-supplant-10882694",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-30T06:31:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Tech",
    "slug": "scmp-tech",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3369301/chinas-deepseek-open-sources-tools-help-huawei-chips-supplant-nvidia-ai"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chinese AI startup DeepSeek opened up a suite of software tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips on Wednesday, signaling a shift away from Nvidia processors. The Hangzhou-based firm released six modules that mirror previous tools for Nvidia's chips, aiming to create an independent software ecosystem for GPUs. Among the releases is TileLang, a programming language that now supports Huawei's Ascend 950 accelerators, offering native code generation, automatic scheduling, and synchronization. DeepSeek also unveiled high-performance libraries like DeepGEMM Ascend for matrix multiplication and DeepEP Ascend for efficient cross-device communication. These tools reportedly approach hardware limits in computational and communication performance. The development was a collaborative effort with Huawei, working on a supernode architecture with 128 Ascend 950 processors. This move comes as Beijing pushes for tech self-reliance, with other Chinese chipmakers like Cambricon Technologies and Alibaba Group supporting DeepSeek's V4 model, which runs on Huawei's Ascend chips.",
  "summary": "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…",
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        "title": "China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI",
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