Report: DeepSeek plans to train V5 on Huawei Ascend chips
Partly confirmed
The takeaway
STAR Market Daily reported on Nov 3, 2026, citing industry sources, that DeepSeek plans to train its next model, V5, on Huawei Ascend chips, which so far mainly served inference for DeepSeek.
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 4 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra187 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5126 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon217 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7156 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 126 days before it.
Key facts
- Unconfirmed by DeepSeek
- Separately DeepSeek showed a Harness ‘Creator Mode’ for building plugins by conversation (Nov 2)
What happened
Training a frontier model on domestic chips would be a milestone for China’s export-control workaround; treat as unconfirmed.
Sources
3 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 3 press
Press
- TechNode: DeepSeek reportedly plans to train V5 model on Huawei Ascend chipstechnode.com, press
- STAR Market Daily (cls.cn, Chinese)cls.cn, press
- TechNode: DeepSeek showcases Creator Modetechnode.com, press
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