Deepseek open-sources TileLang for Huawei Ascend chips
deepseek releases open-source programming tools for huawei's ascend chips, including tilelang, a language meant to be easier to work with than nvidia's cuda software platform. this affects china's ai industry.
deepseek, a chinese ai developer, has released open-source programming tools for huawei's ascend chips, including tilelang, a language developed by researchers at peking university. the software includes libraries for computation and data movement between chips. huawei 'fully supported' the work, and the two companies optimized a supernode of 128 ascend 950 chips. this partnership aims to address one of the biggest problems facing china's ai industry: domestic chips need software that can get the most out of them.