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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Matthew Connatser

Huawei adds DeepSeek-optimized inference support for its Ascend AI GPUs

Huawei.

On January 27, the same day Nvidia’s stock price plummeted after the market fully appreciated what the Chinese LLM meant for the industry, China-based Huawei posted an article announcing that the distilled R1 AI model was then available for free via its ModelArts Studio platform. The tech company explicitly said this version is “Ascend-adapted,” as in Huawei’s Ascend data center GPUs.

Huawei doesn’t detail exactly what kinds of Ascend GPUs it uses for ModelArts Studio, particularly regarding the R1, but AI industry figures like Yuchen Jin believe that it may be the latest Ascend 910C. This new GPU was said to be sampled to customers in September, so it’s possible the 910C has already been added to Huawei’s cloud servers.

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