{"id":603346,"date":"2026-04-24T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603346\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:24:07","slug":"deepseek-unveils-next-gen-ai-model-as-huawei-vows-full-support-with-new-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603346\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek unveils next-gen AI model as Huawei vows \u2018full support\u2019 with new chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">DeepSeek has finally released its much-anticipated next-generation foundational artificial intelligence model, the open-source V4, which it said was competitive with leading US closed-source models from the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Hangzhou-based AI start-up released two versions of the model on Friday, with the V4-pro model boasting 1.6 trillion parameters, making it the company\u2019s biggest-ever model by that metric, while the smaller V4-flash model has 284 billion parameters. A higher parameter count generally correlates with greater capabilities for a model, while also increasing the computational demands of training and serving it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Both models have a context window of 1 million tokens, a critical feature that determines the amount of information an AI system is able to process, which DeepSeek said was achieved with \u201cworld-leading\u201d cost efficiency. DeepSeek\u2019s previous flagship model had a context window of 128,000 tokens.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after DeepSeek\u2019s release, Huawei announced \u201cfull support\u201d from its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3347346\/huawei-challenges-nvidia-powerful-new-ai-accelerator-card?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">range of Ascend chips<\/a>, along with its supernode systems, to serve V4 models for model inference. The Shenzhen-based tech giant is set to reveal more details about the collaboration in a live stream on Friday afternoon. AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies also moved quickly to announce compatibility with DeepSeek\u2019s new models.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe release of V4 explicitly mentions compatibility with domestic chips,\u201d said analysts from Huatai Securities in a note to clients. \u201cWe can look forward to a significant improvement in the capabilities of domestic graphics cards and their widespread adoption this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the parameter size of V4-pro makes it prohibitively large to be run locally on consumer-grade hardware, the extended technical report outlining V4\u2019s model architecture and training techniques is likely to be beneficial for global AI developers.<\/p>\n<p>The V4-flash model is also one of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3303200\/tech-war-chinese-ai-models-led-deepseek-catch-us-rivals-lower-prices?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cheapest cutting-edge models<\/a> available on the market, with token pricing identical to DeepSeek\u2019s V2 model released in June 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeepSeek has finally released its much-anticipated next-generation foundational artificial intelligence model, the open-source V4, which it said was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[39229,28,8192,18732,35708,7513,1283,25,262462],"class_list":{"0":"post-603346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ascend","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chinese","11":"tag-deepseek","12":"tag-hangzhou","13":"tag-huawei","14":"tag-openai","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-v4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}