DeepSeek and Huawei release open-source programming tools for Ascend chips

China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips

DeepSeek and Huawei built programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips and open-sourced all of them. The centerpiece is TileLang, a language the pair describe as easier to pick up than CUDA. The two also optimized a supernode made up of 128 Ascend 950 chips.

Why it matters: DeepSeek and Huawei are filling in the Ascend software stack, a window into both the gaps in China's chip ecosystem and how vendors are working around them.