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nsoonhui • today at 2:38 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

  it seem they are making good progress on their huawei ascend chips
This is interesting to me. I thought that the reason for deepseek delay was because of the insistence ( by the politicians) to use huawei chip[0]. But that was last year August.

Anything changes in between?

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseeks-launch-new-ai-...

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neom • today at 2:42 AM

GLM-5 was trained entirely^ on Huawei Ascend chips. https://z.ai/blog/glm-5 / https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/chinas-ai-startup-zhipu-r...

(^edit, I don't know for certain entirely is accurate - edit again, found a chinese source saying their image model is end to end ascend, or at least, domestic: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1994775762516080044 & https://www.guancha.cn/economy/2026_02_12_806895.shtml)

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