Perception Beating AI News, Bloomberg cited sources saying that DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT chips in an AI data center under construction in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia. If the plan proceeds as intended, it would become one of the largest known Huawei AI chip clusters to date. DeepSeek wants to buy more, but Huawei's production capacity is currently insufficient, so full delivery may take over a year.

This batch of 950DT chips will be used to run DeepSeek's models, with no current plans to use them for training. DeepSeek still relies mainly on NVIDIA GPUs for core training.

The 160,000 chips are just a part of the entire project. DeepSeek had previously planned to build a nearly 1GW-scale AI data center in Ulanqab and lease additional computing power from other local operators.