BEIJING/HONG KONG – Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Sept 30 it has partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools optimised for Huawei’s Ascend chips, the latest sign of Chinese tech firms deepening ties as they seek alternatives to the Nvidia ecosystem.In a post on its official WeChat account, DeepSeek said it was open-sourcing programming infrastructure for Huawei’s Ascend platform, including compute and communication libraries.The announcement came two weeks after Huawei unveiled its next generation of AI processors and supernode computing systems, and said it expected its AI systems to be widely used for model training in 2027.DeepSeek said…