Deepseek’s V4 model will run on Huawei chips, The Information reports

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03/04/2026 14:43

April 3 (Reuters) - China's DeepSeek's new model called V4 will run on the latest chips designed by Huawei Technologies, U.S. digital news outlet The Information reported on Friday.

In preparation for V4’s launch, Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba Group 9988.HK, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings 0700.HK, have placed bulk orders for Huawei’s upcoming chip totaling hundreds of thousands of units, it said.

The Information cited five people with direct knowledge of the purchase.

Huawei Technologies and DeepSeek did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment sent outside normal office hours.

(Reporting by Sneha S K in Bengaluru; editing by Barbara Lewis)

((Sneha.SK@thomsonreuters.com;))