[Huawei Engineers Stationed at DeepSeek, DeepSeek Plans to Use Ascend 950DT for Pre-training as Early as Year-End] According to Tencent Technology, insiders revealed that Huawei engineers have been stationed long-term at DeepSeek's office, incorporating large model training requirements into the design of next-generation chips. DeepSeek plans to initiate large-scale pre-training using Huawei's Ascend 950DT as early as the end of this year. A complete pre-training session may require over 10,000 chips running continuously for several weeks, with the exact duration depending on testing progress. Huawei plans to allocate the majority of its Ascend 960DT chips, set for release in Q1 2027, to DeepSeek. On September 30, DeepSeek open-sourced the TileLang toolkit adapted for Ascend 950, while continuing to seek additional NVIDIA chips.