At MWC 2024, Huawei asserted its ambition to lead the AI cloud domain, presenting a strategy aimed at accelerating intelligence across industries. With a focus on innovation and scalability, they positioned its cloud infrastructure as the foundation for AI-driven applications to unlock the full potential of global intelligence.
What Have Huawei Revealed at MWC 2024
Huawei set the MWC 2024 stage for a new era of digital innovation and technological advancement with their improved Huawei Cloud. It is a comprehensive suite of cloud services that provides various products and services for building the foundation of an intelligent world.
The company unveiled 10 AI-oriented innovations, underlining its commitment to delivering solutions tailored to diverse industry needs.
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10 AI-Oriented Innovations Unveiled at MWC 2024
1. KooVerse: The company cloud’s global infrastructure has 85 availability zones across 30 regions and over 170 countries. With low latency, KooVerse covers compute, storage, networking, and security, ensuring rapid access to cloud resources for customers worldwide.
2. Distributed QingTian Architecture: Addressing the growth in demand for compute resources, this architecture surpasses most AI models. Built on a high-speed interconnect bus, QingTian provides an AI compute backbone with heterogeneous, peer-to-peer, full-mesh computing capabilities.
3. AI Compute: Offering hyperscale and stable AI Cloud Service supporting trillion-parameter model training. It ensures uninterrupted training jobs over thousands of cards for extended periods, with 100 Pangu model capability sets and 100 adapted open-source large models available out of the box.
4. AI-Native Storage: Designed to handle the vast amounts of data required for training models. Features include EMS memory service for petabytes of parameters storage with low latency, SFS Turbo cache service for high throughput and concurrency, and Object Storage Service (OBS) knowledge lake for efficient data storage.
5. End-to-End Security (E2E): Providing comprehensive security coverage throughout the model lifecycle, training data, and runtime environments. This ensures robust, secure, and compliant models and applications, enhancing trust and reliability in AI-driven solutions.
6. GaussDB: A next-generation database featuring high availability, security, and performance. Its distributed architecture ensures zero service downtime and is certified with the highest level of security standards (CC EAL4+). GaussDB streamlines database deployment and migration processes, offering enhanced automation and intelligence.
7. Data-AI Convergence: Unifying data lakes and orchestrating workflows for seamless data and AI integration. LakeFormation enables data sharing among multiple analytics and AI engines without migration, while collaborative pipelines drive online model training and inference with real-time data.
8. Media Infrastructure: Catering to the demands of the AIGC and 3D Internet era, Huawei Cloud’s media infrastructure enhances content production and user experiences. MetaStudio facilitates quick and efficient content generation, while services like SparkRTC ensure seamless live experiences.
9. Landing Zone: Optimising resource management for enterprises with unified account, identity, permissions, and compliance management. Multi-tenancy and collaboration are integrated, enhancing operational efficiency and security compliance on Huawei Cloud.
10. Flexible Deployment: Offering versatility across public, dedicated, or hybrid cloud environments. Customers can leverage Huawei Cloud Stack for building and running dedicated AI platforms and foundation models in their existing data centres, ensuring adaptability and scalability in cloud deployment strategies.
Huawei’s Commitment to AI Cloud Strategy for Global Expansion and Industrial Use
Focusing on practical applications, Huawei’s Pangu AI model plays a role in its AI cloud ecosystem.
By merging cloud computing and artificial intelligence expertise, the company aims to equip enterprises with AI-driven insights to expedite their digital transformation. Despite facing challenges from U.S. sanctions, the company remains resolute in its pursuit of technological advancement and leadership in the AI cloud sector.
Huawei’s Plans to Expand Beyond U.S. Sanctions Into Egypt and Hong Kong
Why is a leading Chinese telecommunications company viewed negatively by the United States? Well, Huawei has been accused by the United States and other countries of posing a national security threat due to its alleged ties to the Chinese government. These countries, including the U.S., Australia, and Japan, have banned them from their 5G networks. Even though they attempted to dispute these claims by suggesting that the U.S. is motivated by economic competition, the ban was not lifted.
In defiance of U.S. sanctions and geopolitical challenges, they outlined its plans to expand its cloud services globally, with a particular focus on Egypt and Hong Kong. The announcement of a new local cloud service in Egypt and the establishment of an AI cloud computing centre in Hong Kong underscore their commitment to fostering digital transformation and innovation across regions.
By strategically diversifying its global footprint and investing in markets, the company aims to overcome regulatory hurdles and position itself as a key player in the international cloud computing landscape.
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