diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index eacaf36e94273ad2bd90980095bb089dab9fdbc2..48d5010f16d11b9e7c26dc15025ee5eb8e174eb9 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -55,3 +55,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/tacopie"]
 	path = third_party/tacopie
 	url = https://github.com/cpp-redis/tacopie
+[submodule "third_party/cudnn-frontend"]
+	path = third_party/cudnn-frontend
+	url = https://github.com/MegEngine/cudnn-frontend.git
diff --git a/third_party/cudnn-frontend b/third_party/cudnn-frontend
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d38bbc314d9f43dc87c9ccf5d36bc98bdfc583d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/cudnn-frontend
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d38bbc314d9f43dc87c9ccf5d36bc98bdfc583d2