DeepSeek and Huawei are going after CUDA, the moat Nvidia actually relies on
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DeepSeek and Huawei are going after CUDA, the moat Nvidia actually relies on
Six software modules. That is what DeepSeek published on Wednesday for Huawei's Ascend chips, and it matters more than another benchmark chart would. The Hangzhou lab announced the release on its WeChat account as a joint effort with Huawei to make AI development outside Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem less painful, according to Quartz.
Key Takeaways
- DeepSeek open-sourced six software modules for Huawei's Ascend chips, including a port of its TileLang programming language
- The tools target Ascend 950 accelerators and a 128-chip supernode the two companies tuned together
- The real target is CUDA, the software habit that keeps developers on Nvidia even when rival chips exist
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