DeepSeek plans to use Huawei’s Ascend chips to train its next-generation V5 model, STAR Market Daily reported on November 3, citing multiple industry sources. The reported plan would extend Ascend’s role beyond running DeepSeek models to the computing-intensive process of training a new model.
Ascend chips have primarily supported inference for DeepSeek models, according to the report. Using them for V5 training would mark a further step in DeepSeek’s adoption of Chinese AI hardware, following earlier work to adapt its software infrastructure to domestic processors. [STAR Market Daily, in Chinese]