Ascend

Huawei has released the full training code for its openPangu-2.0 large language model as open source, covering pretraining, supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, all built to run on its own Ascend AI chips. The move gives developers a complete, hardware-independent stack for training large models outside Nvidia's ecosystem and signals Huawei's push to grow its domestic AI software and chip stack.

Huawei's Ascend AI chips have overtaken Nvidia in China's artificial intelligence market, according to a report by Fortune. The shift reflects the impact of US export restrictions that have limited Nvidia's access to Chinese customers, pushing domestic firms toward homegrown alternatives. The development marks a significant milestone for China's semiconductor self-sufficiency efforts and intensifies the technology rivalry between Washington and Beijing.