DeepSeek's R1 model shook the AI industry when it arrived in January over claims it was trained on 2,048 Nvidia H800s and at a cost of

DeepSeek delayed the launch of its R2 model after Huawei chips failed in training, forcing reliance on Nvidia processors and highlighting limits of China's push for domestic AI technology.

Chinese AI model dev still plans to use homegrown silicon for inferencing Unhelpful Huawei AI chips are reportedly why Chinese model dev DeepSeek's next-gen LLMs are taking so long.… Following the industry rattling launch of DeepSeek R1 earlier this year,