Recently, an email that is allegedly from Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, to Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, dated April 23, 2026, has been making the rounds online. In this email, Ren extended his congratulations to the DeepSeek team for successfully training DeepSeek V4 on the Ascend computing power platform. He lauded the achievement, stating that it "blazes China's unique technical trail and sets a new standard in the global artificial intelligence arena." Moreover, Ren Zhengfei also dispatched another email to the entire staff.