DeepSeek Unveils AI Chip Software Developed With Huawei

DeepSeek has released software developed in collaboration with Huawei Technologies to program artificial intelligence chips, highlighting the close partnership between the two Chinese companies.

The tools are designed for Huawei’s AI chips. Their release puts the software needed to program those chips at the centre of the companies’ joint development efforts.

The announcement also underscores their role in building technologies that could compete with the ecosystem of US chipmaker Nvidia.

Software is an important part of that challenge: competing in AI computing requires not only chips, but also tools that allow developers to use them.

The release points to closer cooperation between DeepSeek and Huawei, though it does not by itself establish how their technology compares with Nvidia’s ecosystem.