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.

Infrastructure • The Decoder

Nvidia launches free PAIR software to link idle PCs for local AI tasks: Nvidia has announced the Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free, open-source software tool. The software syncs idle home computers to handle local AI inference tasks. It is designed to work with existing tools like Ollama and LM Studio.

AI Hardware & Infrastructure • The Verge AI

DeepSeek plans to deploy 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips in Inner Mongolia: DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei's top Ascend 950DT accelerators at a massive new data center in Inner Mongolia. The project would create one of the largest clusters of Huawei chips to date. The initiative highlights DeepSeek's efforts to build domestic AI infrastructure.

Hardware • Techmeme