DeepSeek Touts Open-Source Tools to Boost Huawei AI Dominance
Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek has released six open-source tools tailored for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, marking a step forward in China's efforts to reduce dependence on US-based Nvidia processors. The move is part of Beijing's push to develop an independent software ecosystem for graphics processing units (GPUs).
DeepSeek's Hangzhou-based team has released the open-source tools, which mirror their prior work for Nvidia's AI chips. Among the releases is a version of TileLang, a custom programming language designed to streamline high-performance kernel development on GPUs and central processing units.
TileLang now officially supports Huawei's Ascend 950 accelerators, offering native code generation, automatic scheduling, and synchronization. The move aims to build an 'independent and controllable' software ecosystem for GPUs in China.