China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI
With introduction of suite of six tools, AI model developer aims to create ‘independent’ software ecosystem for AI processors
Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released six software modules that mirror its prior open-source tools for Nvidia’s AI chips, aiming to build a new “independent and controllable” software ecosystem for graphics processing units (GPUs), according to a post on its official WeChat account.
Among the releases is an Ascend-compatible version of TileLang, a custom programming language designed to streamline the development of high-performance kernels – essential computation programs – to run on GPUs and central processing units.
While TileLang lists Nvidia as its primary back end, it now officially supports Huawei’s Ascend 950 accelerators, offering “native code generation, automatic scheduling, and synchronisation”, according to an update on the project’s GitHub page.
