Huawei has greenlit a plan to open-source its CANN software toolkit for its Ascend AI GPUs. According to the South China Morning Post, Huawei is making this move in order to better compete against Nvidia and its closed-source CUDA software ecosystem.
Open-sourcing CANN, or Compute Architecture for Neural Networks, could further speed up developer innovation and improve the usability of Huawei's Ascend AI GPUs. Furthermore, Huawei has reportedly already held talks with China's leading AI players, business partners, universities, and research institutions on how to build an open-sourced Ascend ecosystem.
