DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei to shape the design of future AI chips, with Huawei engineers stationed at DeepSeek's offices to incorporate its requests into chip design decisions.

• Huawei engineers are incorporating DeepSeek's requests and suggestions into design decisions for chips that will come out next year and beyond, such as how models calculate and move data between processors.
• To do this work, the Huawei engineers have been stationed at DeepSeek's offices for an extended period, one of the people said.