Huawei announces that CANN is fully open source and open, jointly building the Ascend ecosystem.

According to a Huawei announcement, today, the Ascend Computing Industry Development Summit was held in Beijing. Representatives from leading AI companies, partners, universities, and research institutions discussed together how to better build an open-source Ascend ecosystem, accelerating AI innovation and development. Huawei's rotating chairman Xu Zhijun announced at the summit that Huawei's Ascend hardware enables the full open-source and open-access to the CANN framework, the Mind series application enablement suite, and the toolchain, supporting users to independently delve into deep learning and customize development, accelerating the innovation pace of developers, making Ascend more user-friendly and easy to use.