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when DeepSeek announced on Friday its much-anticipated next-generation foundational model, the open-source V4, and Huawei followed with a live stream that revealed details of its chip support for the new model, it got a lot of attention.
DeepSeek’s V4-pro model boasts 1.6 trillion parameters, making it the company’s biggest-ever model by that metric, while the smaller V4-flash model has 284 billion parameters. Both models have a context window of 1 million tokens, a critical feature that determines the amount of information an AI system is able to process. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖
Prior to V4’s release, US officials accused DeepSeek of using banned Nvidia Blackwell chips to train its models. But we now know that it has been optimised to run on Huawei’s Ascend rather than US chips.
Soon after DeepSeek’s release, Huawei hosted a live stream where its engineers said the company’s entire Ascend SuperNode product line was “fully adapted” to DeepSeek V4 for model inference, which has “significantly improved” due to the two companies’ close collaboration prior to the model’s release.
After DeepSeek roiled global markets with its low-cost reasoning model in January 2025, OpenAI accused the Chinese start-up of “distilling” its own models.
This week, US lawmakers advanced a number of bills, including one called the Deterring American AI Model Theft Act, which would authorise sanctions against Chinese AI model companies accused of distilling US model outputs.
Another bill, The Match Act, for Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware, would require US allies such as Japan and the Netherlands to more closely align with US restrictions on selling advanced semiconductor equipment to China.
That indirectly affects DeepSeek and Huawei, the latter having been under US sanctions since 2019 on national security grounds, because Huawei’s advanced chips are made locally by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC).
SMIC has not been able to get beyond the 7-nm chip node due to Washington’s ban on EUV lithography systems being shipped to China.
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