Nigher CEO Jensen Huang has warned that DeepSeek, China's AI lab, which is set to launch its V4 foundation model on Huawei’s Ascend 950PR processor, would be a “horrible outcome” for the United States if DeepSeeks optimises its AI models for Huawei's Ascend chips instead of American hardware. This comes as US lawmakers are pushing for DeepSeeking to be included in the entity list for export control. Huang's warning comes as the partnership between China's most capable AI lab and its most advanced chipmaker, Huawei, threatens to disrupt the software-hardware dependency underpinning American AI dominance. The move to Huawei's CANN framework represents a significant shift from Nvidia's CUDA to the CANN platform, breaking the software dependency underpinned American AI supremacy. Huang argues that even if China has inferior chips, it could still catch up with the US in AI development given its “abundant energy” pool of AI researchers.