DeepSeek and Huawei Target a Key Source of Nvidias A.I. Dominance

In China’s latest push to reduce its dependence on American artificial intelligence technology, DeepSeek, one of the country’s leading A.I.companies, announced Wednesday that it had developed software tools for chips made by Huawei Technologies.The partnership targets one of the biggest obstacles to China’s ambitions to build a homegrown A.I.

industry — software that can extract the best performance from its chips.Advanced semiconductors alone are not enough to power A.I.systems.

Computer hardware and chip-level software must work together for artificial intelligence to do anything useful, from training frontier models to developing applications that companies and consumers use daily.That software can also be a powerful competitive weapon and moat against rivals trying to make inroads.Though China is catching up, Silicon Valley companies remain leaders in A.I.technology, with Nvidia, whose chips power the most advanced A.I.

systems, at the forefront.Nvidia’s semiconductor designs are the most advanced in the world.

But its dominance rests on more than chips.The company also benefits from having an estimated four million software developers worldwide who use CUDA, a software platform for Nvidia chips.In an announcement Wednesday on its official WeChat site, DeepSeek presented its work with Huawei as a potential alternative to CUDA.

To build a successful A.I.ecosystem, specialized software must be a “universal, easy-to-program language that can also reach the upper limit of hardware performance,” DeepSeek said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

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