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A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes model workloads and kernel optimization

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A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes model workloads and kernel optimization

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