STAR Market Daily Reports DeepSeek Plans to Pre-Train V5 on Huawei Ascend Chips
Summary
DeepSeek plans to pre-train its next-generation DeepSeek V5 model on Huawei Ascend chips, STAR Market Daily reports, citing multiple industry sources. Ascend has mostly handled inference until now. The reported plan is unconfirmed, and viability depends on training stability, cluster performance and software maturity.
Key Points
- Huawei deployed more than 3,000 Ascend chips around Chinese New Year 2025 to run DeepSeek V3 and R1 on Huawei Cloud, per the report.
- DeepSeek open-sourced compiler tools, high-performance computing libraries and distributed communication software for Ascend on September 30.
- A Shenzhen research consortium says it completed full-parameter post-training of the 1.6-trillion-parameter V4-Pro on Ascend 910C chips.