26 april 2026 · 15:15

DeepSeek V4 on Huawei Chips: China's Parallel AI Stack

DeepSeek's new V4 model is explicitly built to run on Huawei Ascend chips, not Nvidia, marking the clearest signal yet that China is assembling a complete, self-contained AI stack. In this episode of The State of Tech, The European Edition, we unpack what that means for European companies weighing open-source Chinese models, alongside a $20 billion AI chip spending spree in the West, fresh automation research targeting white-collar jobs, and Chinese carmakers rewriting the rules at Auto China 2026.