Report: China’s DeepSeek follows OpenAI in developing its own custom inference chips

DeepSeek Ltd., one of China’s most visible artificial intelligence companies, is pushing to design its own, in-house silicon aimed at inference workloads, according to a report by Reuters today.

The report cites three people familiar with the company’s plans as saying that it has been exploring the concept of developing its own AI accelerators for […]

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