There is no longer any CUDA dependency anywhere in its stack, which is probably the biggest deal of all. For those who don’t know, CUDA is Nvidia’s software layer which is the foundation nearly every frontier AI model in the world is built on. Except, as of today, DeepSeek V4, which can run entirely on Huawei Ascend chips via Huawei’s CANN framework. China now has its own domestic AI stack, top to bottom.
more context from earlier this month
163.com, citing Weijin Research, adds that currently, China’s AI training and inference chips—represented by Huawei’s Ascend 950 PR—are broadly considered to sit between NVIDIA’s H100 and H200 in capability, with production capacity remaining the main bottleneck.
According to the report, the 950 PR is still primarily targeted at inference workloads, while the upcoming 950 DT, expected by the end of this year, is designed for training and deep learning scenarios.
