DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei Technologies Lanka Co., (Pvt) Ltd to develop programming tools optimised for Huawei’s Ascend AI

DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei Technologies Lanka Co., (Pvt) Ltd to develop programming tools optimised for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, as Chinese technology companies continue developing alternatives to the NVIDIA ecosystem. The collaboration includes open-sourcing compute and communication libraries for the Ascend platform, with Huawei supporting the development.

The companies have also jointly advanced a “supernode” solution built around 128 Ascend 950 chips, focusing on optimising both computing performance and communication between processors. The development follows Huawei’s recent launch of its next-generation AI processors and supernode computing systems.

DeepSeek also highlighted TileLang, an open-source, high-level programming language designed for AI chips. The platform aims to simplify chip programming compared with NVIDIA’s CUDA while supporting the development of an independent GPU software ecosystem.