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Report: DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative
- Current status
- Reported
- Companies
- DeepSeek
- Happened
- Sep 29, 10:00 PM PT
- Last updated
- Sep 30, 12:05 AM PT (revision 1)
- Evidence
- 1 report · 1 independent chain (adjudicated)
What happened
Reuters (via Techmeme) reported: "DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative".
Why it matters
Partnerships change who DeepSeek depends on for distribution, compute or capability.
Uncertainty
Reported by Reuters; not independently confirmed.
Evidence and provenance
- First reportchain: reutersDeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative (Reuters)Techmeme · published Sep 29, 10:00 PM PT · techmeme.com · rev 1Original report (Reuters): reuters.com