#Ascend

Open Source AI

Within a Day, China's Largest Open Model Was Running on Chinese Accelerators

Huawei announced day-zero Ascend support for Kimi K3 — training on Atlas SuperPoD, inference through vLLM Ascend and SGLang. No throughput figures were published.

Jul 28, 2026

AI Chips

Huawei Puts Its Atlas 950 SuperPoD on the WAIC Floor, Claiming 6.7x Nvidia's NVL144

The first public display of Huawei's largest AI supernode — 1,024 Ascend NPUs across 16 cabinets, scaling to 8,192 — is a hardware statement timed to the hour of Xi Jinping's Shanghai keynote.

Jul 17, 2026