Prominent technology companies in China including ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba are reportedly racing to secure AI chips from Huawei due to demand driven by the release of DeepSeek’s latest V4 AI model.
Sources told Reuters cloud computing companies and GPU rental services also approached Huawei to place new orders for its Ascend 950 chip series.
The spike follows the release of DeepSeek V4, a model optimised specifically for Huawei’s chips that opens a window for the Chinese vendor to push its in-house semiconductors.
Following the launch of DeepSeek V4, domestic cloud giants Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud immediately integrated the AI player’s latest model, providing developers with immediate access to both the V4-Pro and V4-Flash options.
Reuters said the model is expected to significantly raise demand for AI workloads and domestic processing capacity, which in-turn marks a turning point for Huawei.
Source: Mobile World Live
Image Credit: DeepSeek
