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• Chinese labs move frontier training onto domestic chips

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1. Sep 24

   Moxing raises $150M for 4D world models

   The Hangzhou startup building low-cost "4D" world-model infrastructure runs its MoWorld 4D system on Huawei Ascend chips, claiming roughly 70% lower inference cost.

2. May 22

   DeepSeek V4 reportedly moves to Huawei Ascend

   Chinese media report DeepSeek gave Huawei's Ascend 950PR early access to V4 ahead of NVIDIA, aiming to migrate training and inference from CUDA to CANN, with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent reportedly ordering hundreds of thousands of chips contingent on the result.