Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released its latest large language model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, with first-day optimizations for Huawei’s Ascend hardware and CANN software stack. The launch marks a shift in priorities to ensure leading-edge models run on domestic accelerators rather than relying on Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem. DeepSeek announced the model on September 29, posting code and checkpoints to Hugging Face alongside a technical report. The company describes V3.2-Exp as an “intermediate step toward our next-generation architecture,” designed to cut costs on long-context inference. It features a sparse attention mechanism that trims memory and compute requirements while maintaining output quality. Huawei’s Ascend team and the wider vLLM-Ascend community moved swiftly to integrate DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp. In the vLLM-Ascend repo, a new issue outlines custom operator installation steps and kernel packaging for Ascend NPUs to support V3.2-Exp. The CANN team also published an inference recipe, positioning the model for immediate deployment across Huawei hardware.

Full report : DeepSeek’s new AI model debuts with support for China-native chips and CANN, a replacement for Nvidia’s CUDA.