DeepSeek and Huawei Build Tools for Ascend AI Chips

Oct 1, 2026
DeepSeek and Huawei have developed programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, including libraries for a system using 128 Ascend 950 chips.
DeepSeek and Huawei Build Tools for Ascend AI Chips

DeepSeek partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools optimized for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, according to Reuters. DeepSeek is making the programming infrastructure available as open source software, including compute and communication libraries.

The companies also worked on a supernode system based on 128 Ascend 950 chips. Their work focused on improving computation and communication across the system.

DeepSeek said TileLang played a central role in the project. TileLang is a high level open source programming language designed to simplify code for AI chips while using their computing capacity.

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