DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT AI chips at a data center it is building in Ulaan Chab, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Bloomberg reported. The cluster would be among the world’s largest deployments of Huawei-made AI chips and is intended for model inference, while DeepSeek continues to rely on Nvidia accelerators for training. Huawei’s 950DT output is expected to remain at a few hundred thousand units this year because of shortages including high-bandwidth memory, meaning DeepSeek’s order could take more than a year to complete. DeepSeek raised about CNY 50 billion ($7.5 billion) in June and is reportedly seeking billions of dollars in additional funding for infrastructure expansion.