China Open Source Daily — 2026-09-18
“Three institutionally new placements on the Chinese open-source surface: (1) Xi Jinping’s BRICS-plus-open-source-AI initiative announced at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi (September 13, 2026) — China will lead the creation of an ‘open-source zone for artificial intelligence’ for the 11-member BRICS grouping, with a BRICS AI open-source community, a BRICS digital ecosystem cloud platform, and a BRICS engineer-cultivation alliance and youth-exchange program — the first-documented Chinese-head-of-state placement of a ‘BRICS open-source AI zone’ object at the BRICS Summit institutional layer, pairing the same Global-South open-source instrument this series’ September 2 briefing documented at the COPU/WAICO-50-vs-2 layer with the BRICS-plus institutional layer; (2) HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 (September 17, Shanghai) — Deputy Chairman and Rotating Chairman Wang Tao’s ‘Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation’ keynote documents the first-documented instance of a Huawei-deputy-chairman placing the CANN community-open-source-development + Ascend PyTorch-official-backend + Atlas-960E-NPO-near-package-optics + Ascend-960DT-Q1-2027-acceleration + Ascend-960PR-Q3-2027 + Ascend-970-980-2028-2029-plus-Tau-Scaling-Law + one-million-NPU-UnifiedBus-SuperCluster + 4.16-million-Kunpeng-developer ecosystem + 90-third-party-open-source-Ascend-projects pairings at the same Huawei-deputy-chairman-keynote surface — a four-surface-simultaneous Huawei-deputy-chairman-institutional-narrative pattern, pairing the same Huawei open-source-training-ecosystem surface this series’ September 15 briefing documented at the GOSIM Shenzhen keynote layer with the HUAWEI CONNECT institutional layer; (3) OpenAtom Foundation’s first-documented open-source enterprise-training program (September 23-24, Beijing) — the Foundation’s ‘Open Source General-Knowledge Training Class Phase 1’ aimed exclusively at its own donors, with Chairman Xie Shaofeng opening and CSDN founder Jiang Tao keynoting on ‘Open Source in the AI Era: Ecosystem and Infrastructure’ — the first-documented instance of a Chinese open-source foundation placing a donor-only training-and-certification object at the OpenAtom-Foundation-donor-training layer, pairing the same foundation-training surface this series’ August 30 briefing documented at the Mulan-Foundation layer with the OpenAtom-Foundation-donor-training layer.”