DeepSeek reportedly urged by Chinese authorities to train new model on Huawei hardware — after multiple failures, R2 training to switch back to Nvidia hardware while Ascend GPUs handle inference
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DeepSeek's bid to train R2 on Huawei's Ascend chips failed due to technical limits, forcing a return to Nvidia GPUs and delaying the launch.