A research group that includes Huawei Technologies says it completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek's V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model. The group used a cluster of at least 1,000 Huawei Ascend 910C chips, according to the Shenzhen municipal government, as reported by the South China Morning Post.
The revelation is evidence that Chinese accelerators can now handle a training-class workload on domestic silicon, the part of the AI pipeline Chinese firms have had the most trouble moving off Nvidia hardware under U.S. export controls. Huawei carried out the work with the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, the Shenzhen campus of Harbin Institute of Technology, and the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data.
