Huawei Cloud Deploys 3,000 Ascend Chips Over New Year to Support DeepSeek's Surge

During the 2025 Spring Festival, DeepSeek experienced a massive surge in users, straining its computing resources. Huawei Cloud mobilized over 230 engineers to deploy more than 3,000 Ascend chips from New Year's Eve to the second day of the new year, successfully hosting DeepSeek-V3/R1 on its Ascend cloud in the Gui'an data center. This effort not only ensured DeepSeek's stable operation but also demonstrated the potential of domestic computing power to support domestic large models, accelerating China's AI industry.