China Open Source Daily — 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.”

August 26, 2026 · 8 min · 3805 words · The Way of Open Source · Kuo Si