India, April 4 -- 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, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings, have placed bulk orders for Huawei's upcoming chip totaling hundreds of thousands of units, the report said, citing five people with direct knowledge of the purchase. The next-generation model will likely be launched in the next few weeks, the report said. Huawei Technologies and DeepSeek did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment sent outside normal office hours. DeepSeek has spent the past few months working directly with Huawei and anot...