https://www.opensourceway.blog/en/tags/ascend/Recent content in Ascend on The Way of Open SourceHugoenCopyright (c) 2016 - 2026, 「开源之道」·适兕; all rights reserved.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:32:58 +0800https://www.opensourceway.blog/en/posts/china-open-source-daily/2026/08/2026-08-26/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:32:58 +0800https://www.opensourceway.blog/en/posts/china-open-source-daily/2026/08/2026-08-26/"CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), jointly with COPU (Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance), formally releases the 'Token Factory · Intelligence-Computing Capability Grading Evaluation System' — a five-tier (T1–T5), five-dimension administrative-grading apparatus that converts China's proliferating 'Token Factory' compute-facility market from an unregulated 'price-per-token' competition surface into a state-anchored, certificate-based governance surface with operational/design dual-track certification; COPU honorary chairman Lu Shouqun (陆首群) is formally invited to serve on the chairmanship group of the GOAI World AI Open-Source Competition (杭州云谷中心, 5-million-RMB prize pool, four tracks) — a structurally new institutional-bridge event converting Lu Shouqun from the COPU-internal governance axis to a GOAI-foundation external-anchor axis, validating the 'COPU-chairman-as-ecosystem-bridge' hypothesis with a concrete appointment; Huawei opens the Northeast-region registration window of the Ascend CANN HCCL Communication-Library Innovation Contest (hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology, prizes up to 20,000 RMB plus Huawei fast-track hiring) — an empirical observation of Huawei's talent-pipeline institution that routes university developers into the Ascend+CANN+GitCode ecosystem through certificates + prizes + employment-incentive stacking, converting 'community contribution' into a recruitment-funnel input."https://www.opensourceway.blog/en/posts/china-open-source-daily/2026/08/2026-08-25/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:42:33 +0800https://www.opensourceway.blog/en/posts/china-open-source-daily/2026/08/2026-08-25/"Huawei's CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) heterogeneous-compute compiler stack is formally open-sourced at the 2026 CCF China Open Source Conference — a structurally new institutional move that shifts the Chinese AI-chip-compiler ecosystem from a proprietary-vendor-stack architecture to an open-compiler-institution architecture, paralleling the BAAI FlagOS/FlagTree move (August 20 briefing) and completing a two-source confirmation of the 'domestic AI-chip compiler open-source' institutional claim; Tiangong Kaiwu Open Source Foundation and MoLe (Modelers) Community announce a formal strategic partnership — the first institutional bridge between a state-anchored 'Chinese-characteristic' open-source foundation and a CSDN-anchored developer-platform community, with the explicit framing '构建中国特色AI开源协作新范式' (construct a Chinese-characteristic AI open-source collaboration paradigm); ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) analyst Alex Colville publishes 'Some Chinese AI will go closed-source, but not all' (August 2026) — a structurally new institutional observation that deconstructs Xi Jinping's WAIC '开源开放' (open-source-and-openness) slogan as a conceptually-substituted umbrella term spanning models, tools, datasets, and chip architectures, allowing frontier-model weights to be withheld under the same slogan."