Amid continued tightening of overseas export controls on high-end AI chips, Chinese large-model developer DeepSeek is accelerating a move to domestic compute. Industry sources say DeepSeek’s next-generation model, DeepSeek V5, is planned to use Huawei’s Ascend 950 as its core training hardware, with deployment targeted next year. DeepSeek and Ascend core R&D teams are now co-located in Hangzhou and completed extensive low-level operator adaptation and custom development during V4; Ascend was use

Amid continued tightening of overseas export controls on high-end AI chips, Chinese large-model developer DeepSeek is accelerating a move to domestic compute. Industry sources say DeepSeek’s next-generation model, DeepSeek V5, is planned to use Huawei’s Ascend 950 as its core training hardware, with deployment targeted next year. DeepSeek and Ascend core R&D teams are now co-located in Hangzhou and completed extensive low-level operator adaptation and custom development during V4; Ascend was used for inference only in the prior generation, while V5 would be the first large model trained natively on Ascend 950.