Quick take: DeepSeek struggles to train models on Huawei
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What happened: On August 14, FT reported that the launch of DeepSeek's R2 model has been delayed due to difficulties getting Huawei’s Ascend AI chips working for model training.
The company has switched back to Nvidia for training, but will keep using Ascend for inference.
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