Huawei Joins the PyTorch Foundation as a Premier Member

Today, the PyTorch Foundation, a neutral home for the deep learning community to collaborate on the open source PyTorch framework and ecosystem, announced that Huawei has joined as a premier member.

Huawei has been a long-standing supporter and contributor to the PyTorch Ecosystem, and, through the release of progressive diverse computing, provides easier access to the PyTorch ecosystem for more hardware vendors. By joining as a premier member, Huawei will continue to optimize PyTorch to fully unleash Ascend computing capabilities.

“We are delighted to join the PyTorch Foundation, and hope to further collaborate with other member companies and expand the community to a wider audience,” said by Zhang Dixuan, President of Huawei Ascend Computing Business, “This move benefits both Huawei, PyTorch, and the wider AI ecosystem. It also aligns with our long-held beliefs in openness, innovation, collaboration, and shared success, and we are confident that it will spur new innovations in the global AI community.”

Huawei unveiled the All Intelligence strategy to accelerate intelligence across all industries. To cater the demand for AI computing needs, Huawei invests in the system-level technologies, and that belief is centered on open hardware and software that enables partners and fosters talent. This strategy aligns with the PyTorch Foundation’s mission to develop AI as part of a sustainable open source ecosystem and produce inclusive technological feats.

PyTorch Foundation Executive Director Ibrahim Haddad said, “We are delighted to welcome Huawei to the PyTorch Foundation. Huawei is a leading body in researching computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and other emerging areas, and has proven experience in the field of foundation models. We have no doubt that we will benefit from their support and guidance.”

As a premier member, Huawei is granted one seat to the PyTorch Foundation Governing Board, and will help set policies, bylaws, and mission and vision statements that define the overarching scope of the PyTorch Foundation’s initiatives, technical vision, and direction.

The Board welcomes Huawei representative Fred Li, Head of Computing Open Source Development Team at Huawei. Fred leads an active and creative team in R&D and operations projects under the principle of “upstream first”, which aims to make diverse computing power ubiquitous.

To learn more about how you can be a part of the PyTorch Foundation, visit our website.

About Huawei

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have 207,000 employees and operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. We are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

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华为成为PyTorch基金会Primer会员

PyTorch 基金会是深度学习社区在开源 PyTorch 框架和生态系统上进行协作的中立家园,今天宣布华为已作为Primer会员加入。

华为长期以来一直是PyTorch生态系统的支持者和贡献者,通过推进多样性算力支持与改进,帮助更多厂商后端能够更加轻松地接入PyTorch生态,并积极致力于PyTorch优化,从而充分释放昇腾的算力。

“通过加入PyTorch基金会,我们可以进一步与其他成员公司共同协作,加速PyTorch社区的发展。”华为昇腾计算业务总裁张迪煊表示,“我们相信这对华为和 PyTorch 生态系统是互惠互利的,也符合我们长期以来开放创新,协作共赢的开源理念,为全球人工智能社区带来更多的兴奋和创新。”

华为发布全面智能化战略,加速千行万业智能化的转型,持续通过系统级持续创新,坚持硬件开放、软件开源、使能伙伴、发展人才,以满足各行各业多样性的AI算力需求。这与 PyTorch 基金会的使命完美契合且相互补充,即通过培育和维持开源生态系统来推动人工智能的发展,并使每个人都能使用这些技术创新。

“华为在计算机视觉、自然语言处理、语音识别等领域进行了广泛的研究,并且在大模型领域也积累了成熟的研究经验。我们相信 PyTorch 基金会将从他们对我们的成员和生态系统的支持中受益匪浅。”PyTorch 基金会执行董事 Ibrahim Haddad 说道。

作为 Primer 会员,华为获得了 PyTorch 基金会董事会的一个席位。董事会通过我们的章程、使命和愿景声明制定政策,描述基金会计划、技术愿景和方向的总体范围。

我们很高兴欢迎华为计算开源业务总经理李永乐加入我们的董事会。李永乐目前负责华为计算产品线开源业务,他领导着一支极具创新又充满活力的技术和运营团队,他们秉持着“Upstream first”的原则,让多样性算力无处不在。

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关于华为

华为创立于1987年,是全球领先的ICT(信息与通信)基础设施和智能终端提供商。我们的20.7万员工遍及170多个国家和地区,为全球30多亿人口提供服务。我们致力于把数字世界带入每个人、每个家庭、每个组织,构建万物互联的智能世界。

关于PyTorch基金会

PyTorch 基金会是深度学习社区在开源 PyTorch 框架和生态系统上进行协作的中立家园。 PyTorch 基金会得到其成员和 PyTorch 开源项目主要贡献者的支持。基金会利用成员和贡献者提供的资源来促进社区讨论和协作。

关于Linux基金会

Linux 基金会是世界领先的开源软件、硬件、标准和数据协作中心。 Linux 基金会项目对世界基础设施至关重要,包括 Linux、Kubernetes、Node.js、ONAP、PyTorch、RISC-V、SPDX、OpenChain 等。 Linux 基金会专注于利用最佳实践并满足贡献者、用户和解决方案提供商的需求,以创建可持续的开放协作模型。欲了解更多信息,请访问我们的 linuxfoundation.org。 Linux 基金会已注册商标并使用商标。有关 Linux 基金会的商标列表,请参阅其商标使用页面:www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage。 Linux 是 Linus Torvalds 的注册商标。

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