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DeepSeek’s new AI model debuts with support for China-native chips and CANN, a replacement for Nvidia's CUDA — Chinese chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, and Hygon get first-class support

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DeepSeek has unveiled its latest AI model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, optimized for Chinese chips and CANN, a CUDA replacement. The model aims to reduce costs for long-context inference with a sparse attention mechanism. Chinese chipmakers like Huawei, Cambricon, and Hygon are actively supporting the model for immediate deployment on their hardware. This move signals China's commitment to AI sovereignty by prioritizing domestic platforms over Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem. The model's compatibility with both Chinese and Nvidia accelerators highlights the country's readiness for a future less reliant on Nvidia hardware.

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