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iFlyTek announces reasoning model trained entirely on domestic chips

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What happened: On an April 22 earnings call, Chinese smart technologies giant iFlyTek announced that its Xinghuo X1 reasoning model was trained entirely with Huawei chips produced domestically. According to CEO Liu Qingfeng: (SCMP)

"At the end of last year, the efficiency of Huawei’s Ascend 910B AI...



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