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China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips

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China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips

The Decoder · Sep 30, 2026, 2:37 PM UTC

Deepseek and Huawei have built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips. At the center is TileLang, a language designed to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA. The partnership targets the biggest obstacle for China's AI industry, which is software that gets the most out of domestic chips.…