By Rahim Amir
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 19:20:00
- DeepSeek open sourced Ascend ports of its production kernel and communication libraries with Huawei’s support in tow
- Published benchmarks ran on a proof-of-concept hardware kit DeepSeek says is not a publicly distributed release
- Two repositories are genuinely new and have received hundreds of GitHub stars versus Nvidia’s thousands; the other announced components are updates to existing tools
DeepSeek has revealed it is open sourcing a set of infrastructure components for Huawei’s Ascend accelerators.
DeepSeek published two completely new repositories, DeepGEMM-Ascend for matrix multiplication and DeepEP-Ascend for the all-to-all communication that mixture-of-experts models depend on.
The other components named in the announcement were upgrades: TileKernels, DeepSelect, and FlashMLA are existing projects that received Ascend-targeted updates, a distinction FourWeekMBA established from the GitHub creation dates.
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