Infrastructure

DeepSeek plans 160,000-chip Huawei cluster in Inner Mongolia: DeepSeek plans to deploy 160,000 Huawei Ascend-950DT chips in an Inner Mongolia data center dedicated solely to inference. If completed, it would be the largest known Huawei chip cluster. However, production bottlenecks mean Huawei likely cannot deliver the processors for over a year.

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Nscale negotiates up to $3.5 billion in funding ahead of IPO: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion in financing. The funding round reportedly includes a potential $2 billion investment from Nvidia and is being planned ahead of a scheduled initial public offering.