DeepSeek and Huawei build an open-source toolchain for Ascend AI chips.

DeepSeek said it is open-sourcing compute and communication libraries optimized for Huawei's Ascend processors as Chinese companies seek alternatives to Nvidia's software ecosystem.

By TomorrowNews · AI-assisted briefing
Source published 30 Sept 2026 · Briefing published 1 October 2026

AI-generated illustration of chip tiles connected into a large AI-computing fabric; it is not a photograph or official diagram of Huawei hardware. — AI-generated illustration — not a photograph of the event. The chips, code paths and supernode layout are fictional and unbranded. · TomorrowNews / AI-generated illustration

Huawei and DeepSeek jointly advanced a supernode configuration based on 128 Ascend 950 chips, optimizing both computation and communication, according to DeepSeek's official WeChat statement cited by Reuters.

DeepSeek also highlighted TileLang, an open-source high-level programming language intended to simplify AI-chip programming while retaining performance. Its claims about ease of use and performance have not yet been independently benchmarked in the report.

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