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Dodgy Huawei Chips Nearly Sunk DeepSeek's Next-Gen R2 Model
DeepSeek's development of its next-gen R2 AI model was severely delayed after months of failed training attempts on Huawei's Ascend chips, which suffered from unstable hardware, slow interconnects, and immature software. The Register reports: Following the industry rattling launch of DeepSeek R1 ea...
DeepSeek's development of its next-gen R2 AI model was severely delayed after months of failed training attempts on Huawei's Ascend chips, which suffered from unstable hardware, slow interconnects, and immature software. The Register reports: Following the industry rattling launch of DeepSeek R1 earlier this year, the Chinese AI darling faced pressure from government authorities to train the model's successor on Huawei's homegrown silicon, three unnamed sources have told the Financial Times. But after months of work and the help of an entire team of Huawei engineers, unstable chips, glacial interconnects, and immature software proved insurmountable for DeepSeek, which was apparently unable to complete a single successful training run.
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