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China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips

Deepseek and Huawei have released open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, centered on TileLang, a language designed to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA. The partnership targets the biggest obstacle for China's AI industry: software that gets the most out of domestic chips.

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Deepseek and Huawei have built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips. At the center is TileLang, a language designed to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA. The partnership targets the biggest obstacle for China's AI industry, which is software that gets the most out of domestic chips.

The article China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips appeared first on The Decoder.

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