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Deepseek and Huawei built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, centered on TileLang, a language meant to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA.
Why it matters: The tools target what the text describes as the biggest obstacle for China's AI industry, tying the effort to reducing reliance on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem.
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“Deepseek and Huawei have built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips. At the center is TileLang, a language designed to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA.”
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