DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative
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TileLang as an open-source CUDA alternative for Huawei’s Ascend chips is an explicit bid to erode Nvidia’s software moat and reduce US leverage over AI compute. Engineering leaders should start testing how portable their training and inference stacks are to non-CUDA backends — this may become a procurement and geopolitics hedge, not just a technical curiosity.
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