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China’s DeepSeek open-sources tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI

September 30

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek on Wednesday open-sourced a suite of core tools tailored for Huawei Technologies’ Ascend AI chips, marking a step forward in the country’s push to…

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