DeepSeek's game-changing R1 model is reportedly running inference workloads on Huawei's latest Ascend 910C AI chips, showing how much China has been working behind the scenes on its issues in the AI industry.
In a new post on X from Alexander Doria, we're finding out that DeepSeek R1 was trained on NVIDIA H800 AI GPUs but inference is on the new homemade Chinese chips from Huawei in the form of the Ascend 910C which we were reporting about last year.
Huawei's in-house Ascend 910C AI chips are a direct rival for NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs, and while we don't know about the specifications of the Ascend 910C, rumor has it mass production of the 910C is meant to begin in Q1 2025... so, any minute now. China can't get its hands on advanced AI chips because of US export restrictions, it seems it doesn't need them as it has changed the AI landscape with DeepSeek R1.
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