

Nvidia does not have a monopoly on training.
https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.0
Both the full training run and the large-scale deployment are built entirely on AI ASIC superpods. Pretraining spans millions of accelerator-days across more than 35 trillion tokens, with no rollbacks or irrecoverable loss spikes — demonstrating that we have the capability to conduct frontier-scale training on alternative hardware platforms.
LongCat 2.0 is of similar size to DeepSeek V4 Pro and “AI ASIC Superpods” are from Huawei.









If deepseek bought those chips only for inference, they wouldn’t be able to keep up in model development and wouldn’t need inference anymore.
As Meituan uses these chips for training, Deepseek will also use these chips for training. You claiming the chips are somehow defective won’t make Deepseek not use them.