China's premier AI firm, DeepSeek, is reportedly working on its own AI chip, which will primarily be an inference accelerator. Step Aside NVIDIA & Huawei, China's DeepSeek Prepares Its Own AI Inference Chip DeepSeek, the leading AI firm which is based in China, has started developing its own AI chip. As per Reuters, multiple people have stated that the firm is now developing what could be the end of reliance on NVIDIA and Huawei. We already know that China is focusing more on domestic solutions for AI. The country is banning the use of NVIDIA-based accelerators from being used, but […]

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AI chips from Huawei and NVIDIA are currently being leveraged to train and run DeepSeek’s popular models, but the days of this arrangement could be numbered as the Chinese startup has plans in motion to launch its in-house inference silicon. According to people familiar with the firm’s plans, the chip won’t be utilized for training new models, but for generating responses for users on a pre-trained one. Of course, the journey will be arduous because not only does it take years to launch a viable solution, but DeepSeek also has to contend with being limited to existing chip manufacturing equipment […]

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