New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek partnered with Huawei Technologies to create programming tools tailored for Huawei's Ascend processors, marking an effort by domestic technology companies to reduce reliance on the Nvidia ecosystem.

According to a Reuters news report, the tie-up surfaced as Chinese technology companies pushed to construct domestic alternatives to foreign semiconductor hardware and software. Through a statement published on its official WeChat account, DeepSeek confirmed the release of open-source programming infrastructure for Huawei's Ascend platform, delivering specialised compute and communication libraries to developers.

The development followed Huawei's recent unveiling of it...