DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models are available through Huawei’s Ascend cloud service They are powered by the Ascend 910x accelerators banned in the US, EU and UK The pricing is much lower than offered by Azure and AWS who have started trialing DeepSeek DeepSeek recently massively unsettled global markets with the launch of its open reasoning LLM, which was built and trained for a fraction of the cost of models from much larger US competitors, although OpenAI has since accused DeepSeek’s developers of using its models to train theirs. A new paper had claimed DeepSeek’s V3 LLM was trained on…