DeepSeek V5 is planned to be pre-trained on Huawei Ascend chips.

Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/R-1u2exLwZMOu7AITyU5kg A reporter from STAR Market Daily has learned from multiple sources within the industry supply chain that DeepSeek’s next-generation large model, DeepSeek V5, is planned to be pre-trained using Ascend chips. Previously, Huawei’s Ascend chips were primarily utilized for inference tasks for DeepSeek’s large models. According to publicly available information, the first large-scale deployment of DeepSeek models on the Ascend platform took place around the 2025 Spring Festival. In his book The Rise of Ascend , Fang Xingdong—Executive Dean o