China Open Source Daily — 2026-09-07

“Two institutionally new placements on the AAIF / Western-neutral-foundation question in the same 48-hour window — (1) Huawei’s Chief Open-Source Contact Officer Zhang Shanzhou (张山舟, the article’s own name for Ren Xudong’s AAIF-side role at AGNTCon + MCPCon China 2026, Shanghai, September 6–7) delivers the first Huawei keynote on the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) that formally names Huawei as one of the first Chinese enterprises to join AAIF (首批加入 AAIF 的中国企业), offers an L1–L5 Agent-AI evolution ladder with three agent-native paradigm shifts (project / organization / infrastructure), positions openJiuwen at 40K+ stars / 3M downloads / 650 contributors / 50+ industry deployments, introduces A2A-T (a telco-scoped extension of Anthropic’s A2A protocol) and OpenAN (open-sourced with China Mobile and Orange), and closes with a lineage framing of Huawei’s 2015 CNCF founding membership as the precedent for today’s AAIF entry — a structurally new institutional move that absorbs the vendor-official analytical layer’s AAIF-seat recommendation (from the September 5 Ren Xudong essay) into a vendor-official agenda; (2) COPU’s WeChat account, citing COPU Deputy Secretary-General Tan Zhongyi’s on-the-ground confirmation, documents that Lu Shouqun’s keynote at KubeCon China 2026 is scheduled as the opening session (September 8, 09:00, Shanghai International Convention Center) and that CNCF + OpenInfra + PyTorch will jointly present Lu Shouqun with a "Lifetime Achievement Award for Open Source Leader" (开源领袖终身成就奖) — the first-documented Western-foundation-layer formal award to a COPU-named Chinese institutional voice at the KubeCon-China stage, and a structurally new move on the same Western-neutral-foundation question the September 5 Ren Xudong essay first raised.”

September 7, 2026 · 8 min · 3678 words · The Way of Open Source · Kuo Si

China Open Source Daily — 2026-08-31

“Huawei’s openJiuwen has four papers accepted at EMNLP 2026 — 2 Findings, 1 Industry Track, 1 Demo — publishing the first time a Huawei 2012-Lab open-source agent platform has received top-tier ACL-family academic endorsement at the industry-track level, using peer-reviewed academic legitimacy to promote commercial products; Jiang Tao (硅基时间/Silicon Time) publishes the second half of ‘Chinese large models are world-class, so why is the developer ecosystem still in others’ hands?’ with the first quantified ‘derivative-mass gap’ — 34,000 Qwen derivatives on ModelScope vs. 151,000 on Hugging Face — an empirical anchor for the default-path institutional-economics thesis; Xie Lan (清华AIRI院长, State Council Advisory Group) writes in 《中国社会科学报》 — China’s most authoritative social-science official media — explicitly using the ‘Great Divergence’ term in AI governance discourse and positioning ‘open source + high-quality foundation models’ as an instrument of cultural sovereignty and diplomatic statecraft.”

August 31, 2026 · 11 min · 5383 words · The Way of Open Source · Kuo Si