DeepSeek Plans to Deploy at Least 160,000 Huawei AI Chips

DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 high-end Huawei AI accelerators at a new data center in Inner Mongolia. The company intends to utilize Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT chips to run its models, though the timeline depends on Huawei's production capacity. While DeepSeek previously attempted to use Huawei chips for model training, it currently continues to rely on Nvidia hardware for that process.