DeepSeek’s new model generation, tuned for Huawei Ascend, is the software half of the NVLink-vs-open-bus fork. How likely is Chinese hardware independence? High for a sovereign inference lane; contested at the deepest manufacturing layers.
Published June 2026 · Infrastructure notes from 3DN This is not a political manifesto and it is not written to shock anyone. It is a note about electricity — the kind of boring constraint that decides whether an AI strategy … Continued
Four RTX 3090s, 256 GB RAM, and GLM 5.2 running scheduled server-admin jobs — inference and operations that stay on premises.
