"Four Huawei chips for one Nvidia chip": DeepSeek CEO explains how he turned chip scarcity into his strategic alibi

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng said China’s main AI bottleneck is compute, not talent.

He claimed four Huawei chips equal one Nvidia chip for DeepSeek’s workloads.

Liang said DeepSeek is buying as many GPUs as it can amid tight supply.

He also said Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem is weakening in China, underscoring the hardware gap in the AI race.