DeepSeek releases AI chip programming software developed with Huawei

DeepSeek just handed Chinese AI developers something they’ve been waiting for: a full software stack purpose-built for Huawei’s chips, no Nvidia required. The Chinese AI startup announced on September 30 via its WeChat account that it has open-sourced a comprehensive suite of programming tools designed specifically for Huawei Technologies’ Ascend AI accelerators. The toolkit includes TileLang, a high-level programming language that functions as a domestic counterpart to Nvidia’s CUDA, the software framework that has long served as the lingua franca of AI chip programming. What’s in the toolkit The release goes well beyond a single programming language. DeepSeek packaged together a collection of compute and communication libraries, including DeepGEMM, FlashMLA, TileKernel, DeepSelect, and DeepEP. Each addresses a different layer of the AI development process, from matrix multiplication to memory management to inter-chip communication. The software is optimized for Huawei’s Ascend 950 chips and supports a “supernode” configuration linking 128 of those accelerators together. The tools are available for free download, a deliberate choice to lower the barrier for developers who might ot...