The CAAI-Ascend CANN Academic Award Fund is a fund jointly initiated by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Peng Cheng Laboratory, and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. It aims to build an academic exchange platform for AI scholars from universities and research institutions worldwide, providing funding, computing power, and technical support services to promote innovative applications of artificial intelligence methods in scientific fields.

Peng Cheng Laboratory will support applicants in conducting scientific research based on China's domestic artificial intelligence ecosystem through the abundant computing resources of China Computing NET. The OpenI open-source community (https://openi.org.cn/) of China Computing NET (C2NET) will provide a comprehensive and stable online collaborative development environment for this project, offering researchers a full-process artificial intelligence open-source development experience based on China Computing NET's resource infrastructure.

The fund strategically invests in research on next-generation foundational models, focusing on building native ecosystem advantages in two emerging fields: large models and scientific AI, and aims to establish the native technological advantages of Ascend and Ascend CANN, promote in-depth industry collaboration in cutting-edge technology exploration and practice, support the publication of high-level academic papers in international and domestic conferences and journals based on Ascend and Ascend CANN, incubate original theories and major algorithmic innovations, and continuously build an open research and talent ecosystem.

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