Huawei and DeepSeek release open source AI tools in a bid to lower Nvidia exposure — but will programmers make the switch?

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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…