Sources report that the company is facing technical problems: NVIDIA is still training and Huawei chips are planned to be used only for merger.
Huawei even sent an engineer team to the Deepseek office to help, but there was no single successful training session about Ascent.
After the release of the R1 in January, Chinese officials strongly recommended Deepseek to domestic processors. In parallel, the regulators have led to the purchases of large BT companies, including Tencent, ByTedans and Baidu, the purchases of Nvidia H20 chips.
According to MyDrivers, R2 requires a much larger training data volume than R1, but their quality in the domestic market is lower. With the GPU’s acute deficiency, it greatly slowed this process to a great extent.
As a result, the full release date R2 has not yet been appointed and the level of use of Deepseek services has decreased from 50% to 3% since the beginning of the year.
Source: Ferra

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