Bye bye Nvidia? Chinese cloud providers aggressively cut down AI inference costs by using Huawei’s controversial accelerators and DeepSeek’s tech

DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models are available through Huawei’s Ascend cloud serviceThey are powered by the Ascend 910x accelerators banned in the US, EU and UKThe pricing is much lower…

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Nvidia giving away free AI courses worth up to $90 and no, it’s got nothing to do with DeepSeek’s ascension

19 self-paced courses are available, lasting up to eight hours are available free of chargeYou will need to join Nvidia's free developer program to access themMy personal preference would be…

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‘A virtual DPU within a GPU’: Could clever hardware hack be behind DeepSeek’s groundbreaking AI efficiency?

A new approach called DualPipe seems to be the key to DeekSeek's success One expert describes it as an on-GPU virtual DPU that maximizes bandwidth efficiency While DeepSeek has used…

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