[bigcat12345678]

No, mindspore rises because of the chip embargo

No one is going to use stuff that one day is cut off supply.

This is one signal why Huawei was listed by Nvidia as competitor in 4 out of 5 categories of areas, in nvidia's earnings

[ein0p]

Its meteoric rise started well before the chip embargo. I've looked into it, it liberally borrows ideas from other frameworks, both PyTorch and Jax, and adds some of its own. You lose some of the conceptual purity, but it makes up for it in practical usability, assuming it works as it says on the tin, which it may or may not. PyTorch also has support for Ascend as far as I can tell https://github.com/Ascend/pytorch, so that support does not necessarily explain MindSpore's relative success. Why MindSpore is rising so rapidly is not entirely clear to me. Could be something as simple as preferring a domestic alternative that is adequate to the task and has better documentation in Chinese. Could be cost of compute. Could be both. Nowadays, however, I do agree that the various embargoes would help it (as well as Huawei) a great deal. As a side note I wish Huawei could export its silicon to the West. I bet that'd result in dramatically cheaper compute.

[creato]

This data might just be unreliable. It had a weird spike in Dec 2021 that looks unusual compared to all the other frameworks.

[VHRanger]

China publishes a looooootttttt of papers. A lot of it is careerist crap.

To be fair, a lot of US papers are also crap, but Chinese crap research is on another level. There's a reason a lot of top US researchers are Chinese - there's brain drain going on.