DeepSeek reportedly plans to pre-train V5 on Huawei Ascend chips
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DeepSeek reportedly plans to pre-train its next-generation V5 model on Huawei Ascend chips, according to STAR Market Daily sources.
The report says Ascend has so far handled only DeepSeek inference and V4-Pro post-training. X.PIN links the plan to DeepSeek open-sourcing its Ascend compute and communications stack, including DeepGEMM, FlashMLA and DeepEP, on September 30. The plan is reported by a single outlet's sources and has not been confirmed by DeepSeek or Huawei.
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X.PIN@thexpinXDeepSeek reportedly plans to pre-train V5 on Huawei Ascend chipsAIDeepSeek reportedly plans to pre-train its next-generation V5 model on Huawei Ascend chips, according to STAR Market Daily sources. Until now, Ascend has handled only DeepSeek inference and V4-Pro post-training. The post links this to DeepSeek open-sourcing its Ascend compute and communications stack, including DeepGEMM, FlashMLA and DeepEP, on September 30.

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