Deepseek is putting its software weight behind Huawei. The Chinese AI developer has built a set of programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips and is releasing all of it as open source. The goal is simple to state and hard to reach: make domestic Chinese hardware as easy to program as Nvidia's.

The announcement came through Deepseek's official WeChat channel, with further details reported by Reuters and The New York Times.

What Deepseek released

The package includes libraries for running computations on Ascend chips and for moving data between chips. According to Deepseek, Huawei "fully supported" the effort. The two companies also worked together to optimize a supernode, which is a cluster of 128 Ascend 950 chips linked to act as one large system.

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An open-weight model from China can now build working cyber exploits almost as well as Anthropic's most tightly guarded system. That is the central claim of a new analysis from Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, which examined GLM-5.3 from Zhipu AI. The company sells its models outside China under the name Z.ai.

The comparison point is Claude Mythos Preview, which Anthropic unveiled five months ago. Anthropic did not release it widely. Instead, it gave access to selected defenders through Project Glasswing so they could get ahead of attackers. According to Anthropic, those defenders have since found more than 10,000 vulnerabilities in critical software. OpenAI follows a similar restricted approach with Daybreak.

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