Crazy: DeepSeek is reportedly also developing its own AI inference chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei.

Reuters says the project is still early, with DeepSeek working with external partners and expanding its chip design team.

The important detail: this is for inference, not training.

The remarkable thing about this is that, until just a few months ago, hardly anyone would probably have thought it possible that China would increasingly manage to become truly independent from the United States, and therefore from the former H20 and H100 chips. Yet China has completely broken free.

And even though Huawei’s chips are still about two years behind NVIDIA’s top GPUs, China is proving that it at least believes it can be independent and build enough high-quality chips of its own in the future.