DeepSeek Releases Open-Source Tools for Huawei AI Chips

DeepSeek said Wednesday it has released open-source programming tools developed with Huawei Technologies for the company’s Ascend AI chips, including a language called TileLang and libraries for training and inference. DeepSeek also said the companies have advanced work on a supernode system built around 128 Ascend 950 chips, as they develop software and computing infrastructure for Huawei’s processors. The tools are intended to help developers program Ascend chips and support computing and communication across devices. DeepSeek described TileLang as a simpler programming model for building software for AI chips. Its release also includes Ascend-focused components for computation and large-scale communication. The tools are available as open source, according to the reports. The announcement came in a post on DeepSeek’s official WeChat account. The company said Huawei provided full support in developing the programming infrastructure. The account of the collaboration and the supernode’s progress comes from DeepSeek’s announcement; the supplied information does not include independent performance benchmarks or confirmation that the 128-chip system is operating in production.