According to the report of Tom's Hardwarequote South China Morning Post, Huawei We have approved plans to open source the CANN software toolkit for climbing AI GPUs. As stated in the report, the move aims to strengthen Huawei's position on Nvidia and its closed-source CUDA software ecosystem.
This report shows that open-sourcing Cann (neural network computing architecture) can accelerate developer innovation and improve the usability of Huawei's Ai GPUs. It could also support China's broader efforts to reduce dependence on western chip makers and encourage developers to build software for their ascend platforms, as stated in the report.
Huawei reportedly has begun discussions with leading Chinese AI companies, business partners, universities and research institutes about building an open source ecosystem around the Ascend platform.
Cann is a non-uniform computing architecture that provides a multi-level programming interface that helps developers build AI applications optimized for Huawei's Ascend AI GPUs, as explained in the report.
The open-sourcing CAN could help Huawei accelerate adoption of its in-house software toolkit, but the report says it will likely take years before Cann can rival CUDA's capabilities and ecosystem support.
Nvidia continues to keep CUDA closed source as its software ecosystem is closely tied to Nvidia hardware. However, to further strengthen the AI ecosystem, Nvidia introduced “NVLink Fusion” in May to provide cloud service providers with a way to scale to millions of GPUs using AIININFRASTRUCTURE, providing NVIDIA's rack-scaling system and end-to-end networking platform. Technology.
China's open source drive is gaining momentum, allowing more domestic tech companies to publicly access their own technology. Global Times. A day before Huawei announced open-sourcing Cann, Xiaomi opened sourced its own-developed audio-large language model, Midashenglm-7b, as stated in the report. Additionally, Global Times also stated that Alibaba released QWEN3-Coder in late July, an open source AI coding model under the Tongyi Qianwen family.
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Please note that this article quotes information. from Tom's Hardware, South China Morning Posthuawei, Technologyand Global Times.
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