DeepSeek Shapes Huawei AI Chip Design in Push to Reduce U.S. Reliance

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, is actively helping Huawei design its next generation of AI chips, with engineers from both companies collaborating directly to optimize hardware for advanced model training and inference. According to reporting from The Information, Huawei engineers have been stationed at DeepSeek's offices in Hangzhou to incorporate feedback into core design decisions, including how computation is distributed and how data transfers between processors.