Huawei Ascend supernode to support Deepseek V4 (opens in new tab)

submitted by yogthos to technology2 points | 0 comments 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.