>Industry insiders have said the Chinese chips suffer from stability issues, slower inter-chip connectivity, and inferior software compared with Nvidia’s products.
>Huawei sent a team of engineers to DeepSeek’s office to help the company use its AI chip to develop the R2 model, according to two people. Yet despite having the team on site, DeepSeek could not conduct a successful training run on the Ascend chip, said the people.
A_D_E_P_T•5mo ago
Who are "the people"?
This is basically a totally unsourced article that makes concrete assertions based on hearsay. It may or may not be true, but it definitely aims to score some political/commercial points.
nabla9•5mo ago
>Huawei sent a team of engineers to DeepSeek’s office to help the company use its AI chip to develop the R2 model, according to two people. Yet despite having the team on site, DeepSeek could not conduct a successful training run on the Ascend chip, said the people.
A_D_E_P_T•5mo ago
This is basically a totally unsourced article that makes concrete assertions based on hearsay. It may or may not be true, but it definitely aims to score some political/commercial points.