Huawei Technologies is opening up its core AI development toolkit, CANN. The Compute Architecture for Neural Networks powers applications built for the company’s Ascend AI chips.
By making it open-source, Huawei hopes to attract more developers and challenge NVIDIA’s dominance, just as Beijing seems to be turning up the heat on the US chip giant.
“This will speed up innovation from developers and make Ascend easier to use,” said Eric Xu Zhijun, Huawei’s rotating chairman, at the company’s developer conference in Beijing on Tuesday.
Huawei releases AI toolkit to weaken NVIDIA’s hold on developers
