DeepSeek delays launch of new model amid Huawei chip setback: FT

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Chinese AI firm DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DEEPSEEK]) has pushed back the launch of its new AI model after hitting obstacles in training it with chips from Huawei Technologies, the Financial Times said.

In June, business publication The Information reported that the new large language model, known as R2, is likely to be impacted by lack of access to Nvidia's (NVDA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/NVDA]) high-end GPUs due to the ongoing U.S. export control curbs.

The report also noted that DeepSeek had not yet chalked in a release date for R2, as CEO Liang Wenfeng was not satisfied with the performance of the model.

DeepSeek most recently released an upgraded version of its R1 large language model, which it claims is performing near the level of OpenAI's o3 and Google's (GOOG [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GOOG]) (GOOGL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GOOGL]) Gemini 2.5 Pro. The new model is dubbed DeepSeek-R1-0528.

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