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DeepSeek V5 reportedly targets Huawei Ascend 950 training in 2027, a crucial test for a Chinese alternative to Nvidia

DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend 950 chips as the core training hardware for its next-generation V5 model, potentially extending the companies' partnership from inference to full model training in 2027.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-11-04 01:26 · DigiTimes Asia
    DeepSeek V5 reportedly targets Huawei Ascend 950 training in 2027, a crucial test for a Chinese alternative to Nvidia
  2. 2026-11-03 14:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    DeepSeek's 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips: what 10,000 chips for weeks actually buys, and why the reports disagree on training
  3. 2026-11-03 07:07 · r/LocalLLaMA
    DeepSeek V5 is planned to be pre-trained on Huawei Ascend chips.

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