DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei to shape the design of future AI chips, according to The Information, which cited two people familiar with the matter. Huawei engineers have been stationed at DeepSeek's offices for an extended period and are folding the model maker's requests into design decisions, such as how models calculate and move data between processors, for chips due next year and beyond. Chinese reports citing the same reporting add that DeepSeek plans to begin using Huawei's Ascend 950DT for pre-training as soon as the end of 2026, with testing still underway, and that Huawei intends to allocate most of the capacity of its Ascend 960DT, due in the first quarter of 2027, to DeepSeek for both training and inference; neither company has confirmed the accounts.