🤖 DeepSeek is developing its own AI chips to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei Three people familiar with the matter revealed that Chinese AI company DeepSeek is developing its own AI chips to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei chips

🤖 DeepSeek is developing its own AI chips to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei Three people familiar with the matter revealed that Chinese AI company DeepSeek is developing its own AI chips to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei chips. The chip focuses on the inference phase, where a trained model generates answers for users, rather than model training. This effort to develop its own chips began about a year ago and is still in its early stages. DeepSeek has begun contacting chip design, foundry and storage companies and has privately recruited chip design engineers in large numbers in recent months. Previously, DeepSeek’s model had relied on NVIDIA H800 and Huawei Ascend chips. Affected by US export controls, company founder Liang Wenfeng...