SenseTime’s ‘Big Device’ Powers the Leap of Chinese AI from Usable to Practical
The article explains how DeepSeek V4’s delayed launch was a strategic move to fully adapt to Huawei’s Ascend chips, with SenseTime’s ‘Big Device’ acting as middleware that fine‑tunes hardware‑level scheduling, enabling million‑token contexts and bringing Chinese AI performance closer to Nvidia‑based systems, while noting remaining throughput challenges.
