Huawei’s Zhu Zhaosheng: Ascend Past Ecosystem Inflection With Five-Dimension Agentic Computing

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei computing strategy director Zhu Zhaosheng said Ascend has passed a key ecosystem inflection point and presented a five-dimension agentic computing path for SuperPoD and SuperCluster. The CANN community exceeds 5,200 monthly active users, external contributors outnumber Huawei employees, and partners gain access to resources at 10,000 NPU scale.

• CANN: over 5,200 monthly active users, over 30,000 lines of code per day
• Over 40 LLM and multimodal models pre-trained on Ascend
• Open PTO ISA set: 120+ virtual instructions in eight categories
• Partners get access to 10,000 NPUs and a base program of 100 NPU-hours