Huawei recently partnered up with the AI start-up DeepSeek to launch an open-source programming software toolkit optimised for the vendor’s Ascend chips. This move has been speculated to be part of the Chinese companies efforts to expand the AI market beyond Nvidia’s technology.
DeepSeek stated on its WeChat account the toolkit is free to download and includes the TileLang platform, which can be compared to Nvidia’s Cuda that is widely considered as a global standard for developing AI models.
The Chinese AI company explained TileLang is “simpler to programme, significantly improving development efficiency and simplifying code logic”.
It added the open-source programming includes compute and communication libraries.
DeepSeek stated it worked with Huawei on its Ascend 950 chips and praised the vendor for providing “unwavering and strong support” during R&D.
“To do a good job, one must first have the right tools”, DeepSeek stated, arguing the first step to building an independent, GPU software ecosystem is to establish an easy-to-programme high-level language which “can simultaneously reach the hardware performance limits”.
Source: Mobile World Live
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Source: Tahawul Tech
