In order to stimulate original scientific research and promote the innovative application of AI methods in the field of science, CAAI together with Pengcheng Laboratory and Huawei Technologies, Ltd. initiated CAAI - MindSpore Academic Fund and Chinese Society for Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) - CANN Academic Fund for the year 2023-2024.

On December 14th, 2023, the list of selected projects of the Chinese Society for Artificial Intelligence - MindSpore Academic Fund and CANN Academic Fund for the year 2023-2024 was announced. After formal review, preliminary project evaluation by 35 experts in the field of artificial intelligence, and final project evaluation by 12 experts, 22 projects were selected this year. Among them, 15 projects were selected to the list of "Chinese Society for Artificial Intelligence - MindSpore Academic Fund" and 7 projects were selected to the list of "Chinese Society for Artificial Intelligence - CANN Academic Fund".