{"slug": "pytorch-foundation-adds-chinese-tech-trio-as-members", "title": "PyTorch Foundation adds Chinese tech trio as members", "summary": "Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon, and Ant Group have joined the PyTorch Foundation as members, with Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon as Platinum members and Ant Group as a Gold member, following Huawei's membership in 2023. PyTorch Foundation Executive Director Mark Collier said the move strengthens the global open source AI ecosystem, and Alibaba Cloud CTO Feifei Li called it a natural step for the company.", "body_md": "Three of China’s largest tech companies have formally joined the PyTorch Foundation as the country forms closer ties to the international AI industry.\n\nAlibaba Cloud, Cambricon and Ant Group [__announced their membership__](https://pytorch.org/blog/alibaba-cloud-ant-group-cambricon-and-huawei-come-together-in-shanghai-to-advance-the-open-source-ai-stack-at-pytorch-conference-china/?ref=thestack.technology) ahead of a joint KubeCon, CloudNativeCon and PyTorch event in China, following Huawei after it joined in 2023.\n\nPyTorch Foundation Executive Director Mark Collier said the move “further strengthens the global open source AI ecosystem and community building the open source intelligence layer developers rely on for training, optimizing, serving, distributing, and running models.”\n\nQwen model developer Alibaba Cloud and chip company Cambricon join Huawei as Platinum members, giving them a seat on the foundation’s governing board, while Alipay developer Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, joins as a Gold member.\n\nAlibaba Cloud CTO Feifei Li said its addition was a \"natural step\" following its internal use of PyTorch and said the company would \"help developers build the next generation of models with confidence.\"", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-foundation-adds-chinese-tech-trio-as-members", "canonical_source": "https://www.thestack.technology/pytorch-foundation-adds-chinese-tech-trio-as-members/", "published_at": "2026-09-08 12:37:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 13:00:17.585508+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["PyTorch Foundation", "Alibaba Cloud", "Cambricon", "Ant Group", "Huawei", "Mark Collier", "Feifei Li"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-foundation-adds-chinese-tech-trio-as-members", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-foundation-adds-chinese-tech-trio-as-members.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-foundation-adds-chinese-tech-trio-as-members.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pytorch-foundation-adds-chinese-tech-trio-as-members.jsonld"}}