Huawei has introduced Flex:ai, an open-source orchestration tool designed to raise the utilization rate of AI chips in large-scale compute clusters. Announced on Friday, November 21, the platform builds on Kubernetes and will be released through Huawei’s ModelEngine developer community. It arrives amid continued U.S.export restrictions on high-end GPU hardware and reflects a growing shift inside China toward software-side efficiency gains as a stopgap for constrained silicon supply. Aside from being equipped to help China “…create an analogue AI chip 1000 times faster than Nvidia’s chips,” Huawei claims Flex:ai can raise average utilization by around 30%. It reportedly does this by slicing individual GPU or NPU cards into multiple virtual compute instances and orchestrating workloads across heterogeneous hardware types.

Full report : Huawei claims new software can ‘create an analogue AI chip 1000 times faster than Nvidia’s chips.