DeepSeek and Huawei launch TileLang to challenge Nvidia's CUDA

DeepSeek and Huawei have released TileLang, an open-source programming language compatible with Huawei's Ascend AI chips, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem. The two companies also pushed a supernode of 128 Ascend 950 chips to its performance limits.

• TileLang is compatible with Huawei Ascend chips and open to developers
• CUDA is used by 4 million developers worldwide
• A supernode of 128 Ascend 950 chips was pushed to its performance limits
• DeepSeek will deploy at least 160,000 Ascend 950DT chips in an Inner Mongolia data center