The AI wars are heating up with DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model that claims to surpass US competitors significantly when it comes to cost efficiency. Its open-source chatbot has propelled the app to the top position in the App Store in 51 countries, and it’s now revealed that it operates on a Huawei AI chip.
The DeepSeek R1 LLM (large-language model) was trained on Nvidia H100 but uses an Ascend 910C chip for inference, which is the action of using the trained model to generate responses.
I feel this should be a much bigger story: DeepSeek has trained on Nvidia H800 but is running…