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DeepSeek and Huawei release open-source programming tools for Ascend chips

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

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DeepSeek and Huawei partnered to build programming tools for Huawei Ascend chips and open-sourced them. The core is TileLang, a programming language originating with Peking University researchers. DeepSeek says its programming model is simpler than CUDA and that it has used TileLang for about a year as a main tool in its AGI work.

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