No need for Nvidia: iFlytek touts reasoning model trained entirely with Huawei’s AI chips


iFlytek on Monday boasted that its Xinghuo X1 reasoning model had matched OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 in overall performance. — SCMP

Chinese voice-recognition firm iFlytek said that training its large language models (LLM) entirely with Huawei Technologies’ computing solutions has increased its growth potential amid the intensifying US-China tech war, after the Trump administration moved to restrict the export of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.

iFlytek on Monday boasted that its Xinghuo X1 reasoning model, a “self-sufficient, controllable” LLM trained with home-grown computing power, had matched OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 in overall performance following an upgrade, according to a company blog post published on WeChat.

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