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Alibaba Cloud, Ant Group, Cambricon and Huawei Come Together in Shanghai to Advance the Open Source AI Stack at PyTorch Conference China
The new members will gain board and advisory seats as the foundation expands work on hardware-software co-design and production-ready AI runtimes.
- On September 7, Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon, and Ant Group joined the PyTorch Foundation as members during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 in Shanghai, with Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon becoming Platinum members and Ant Group joining as Gold.
- More than 250 organizations across China already contribute to PyTorch Foundation projects; Huawei joined in 2023 with a goal to make diverse computing power ubiquitous through upstream open source work, establishing precedent for Chinese tech participation.
- As Platinum members, Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon each gain one seat on the PyTorch Foundation Governing Board and Technical Advisory Council; Alibaba Cloud's Qwen models have become one of the most influential open-weight series since 2023.
- PyTorch Foundation Executive Director Mark Collier said the additions "further strengthen the global open source AI ecosystem," as the three companies span platform, application, and hardware layers in mapping the ecosystem's future.
- Huawei will explore hardware-software co-design and interoperability between Chinese and global AI stacks, with conference keynotes spanning silicon to software to deployment; developers can join the community through September 9 in Shanghai.
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