Huawei Cloud builds EI intelligent body to promote the evolution of "inclusive AI"

[51CTO.com original article] There is no doubt that cloud computing has had a very wide impact. Looking ahead, cloud computing will become the main support for enterprise IT application loads, and most applications need to run in the cloud to achieve the best business performance. As a result, many companies from all walks of life have begun to explore how to use the cloud to achieve digital transformation, and enterprise cloud service providers have also begun to deploy their forces. The rapid development of new technologies such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence has brought about industry changes and business evolution.

On June 26, 2018, the Huawei Cloud China Tour 2018 series of activities with the theme of "AI is a cloud of faith" kicked off in Shenzhen. Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei Cloud BU, said in his keynote speech: "Advantages cannot stop trends. This is a great era, and everyone must actively embrace change. We may not be the best today, but we are definitely the fastest progressing." In addition, Zheng Yelai mentioned the concept of "inclusive AI" again and announced the launch of Huawei Cloud's intelligent solution for various industries - Huawei Cloud EI Intelligent Body. He said that Huawei Cloud will be committed to inclusive AI, making AI "high-end but not expensive" and making it easy to use and safe on the basis of affordability.

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Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei Cloud BU

Adhere to the "Three Nos" and be a Huawei Cloud with faith

Since the formal establishment of the Cloud BU in March 2017, Huawei has continuously deepened its investment in the public cloud field and insisted on being a "faithful cloud". Why do we need faith? People with faith will not lose their way, and companies with faith will have stronger vitality and broader development space. The faith of an enterprise is self-"restraint" and adherence to business boundaries; the faith of an enterprise is not self-"restraint" or imprisonment of thoughts, but embracing trends, insisting on innovation, and subverting oneself.

Huawei has always had its own persistence and bottom line. It has adhered to its beliefs in technology, continued to invest and innovate, and promoted the inclusion of technology; it has adhered to its beliefs in business, adhered to business boundaries, and always been customer-centric; and it has adhered to its beliefs in ecology. Huawei opens its platforms and technologies to ecological partners to jointly create value.

"No applications, no data, no equity investment" is the boundary that Huawei Cloud has set for itself when conducting business. Looking back on the past year, Huawei Cloud's adherence to this commitment has won it a positive response from the market. So far, Huawei Cloud's revenue has increased by 700% year-on-year, and the number of partners has increased by 45% in the first half of the year. In the first half of 2018 alone, 872 new applications were launched on the cloud market, and the core data and valuable data of many government and enterprise customers were safely moved to Huawei Cloud. In addition, the cloud server C3 launched by Huawei Cloud has a network forwarding performance of 15 million PPS and a computing performance that is 15% better than the industry, becoming a popular cloud service. Huawei Cloud's software development service DevCloud already has 90,000 developers online.

Let’s talk about “inclusive AI” again, making AI high-quality and affordable

In his speech, Zheng Yelai mentioned the concept of "inclusive AI" of Huawei Cloud again, emphasizing that AI should be high-quality and not expensive, so that everyone can afford it, use it well, and use it with confidence. In his view, AI is not an independent product, but a "basic productivity" that is applicable to most economic activities. The application of technologies including neural network models and deep learning will have a multiplier effect on all industries, and artificial intelligence will change many industries in the future.

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Does "inclusive AI" and "making AI high-end and affordable" have anything to do with price? No! Huawei Cloud's "inclusive AI" does not start with a pricing strategy, but with the pain points of industry users in AI applications. For example, in response to the shortage of AI talents, it lowers the technical threshold of AI and provides enterprises with affordable AI capabilities, namely Huawei Cloud EI Enterprise Intelligence. In this way, complex AI expert capabilities are popularized in all walks of life, allowing industry experts to use AI and making AI high-end and affordable. Huawei's artificial intelligence technology and practices are exported to the outside world through EI Enterprise Intelligence services to truly implement AI.

At the Shenzhen stop of the Huawei Cloud China Tour, the launch of Huawei Cloud's EI intelligent body and its application in different scenarios, as well as the full-stack AI solution expected to be released at this year's Huawei Connect Conference, also provided a good explanation of how Huawei Cloud can "inclusive AI".

Huawei Cloud first proposed "EI Intelligent Body", believing that "Intelligent World = Intelligent Body + Physical World"

"The intelligent world requires more than just the brain. It also relies on cloud AI platforms, intelligent edge platforms, ubiquitous connectivity, and industry intelligence. The intelligent world is the combination of intelligent entities and the physical world." Zheng Yelai put forward the above views in his speech and announced the launch of Huawei Cloud EI Intelligent Entity.

Why do we say "intelligent world = intelligent body + physical world"? What is "intelligent body"? In this regard, Zheng Yelai used traffic intelligent body and industrial intelligent body to give a vivid interpretation: In the intelligent traffic scene, the efficiency of traffic lights and intersections is very important for the entire city's traffic management. The core of traffic intelligent body is to achieve the coordinated intelligent management of traffic lights and intersections. One intersection is an intelligent body. Huawei has cooperated with the Shenzhen Traffic Police for many years. In 2017, with the joint efforts of both parties, Shenzhen's road traffic accidents dropped significantly, reaching the overall level of Hong Kong and Singapore. And adopting the "one policy for one congestion point" approach, 400 congestion points have been precisely managed, and the congestion index has dropped from 1.44 to 1.38.

In the industrial field, industrial intelligence runs through all links such as design, supply chain, service, logistics, manufacturing, and simulation, integrates data, and opens up the entire end-to-end business process, from improving equipment yield to improving production results. Taking Huawei's PCB board production as an example, the most common problems encountered by PCB boards are false soldering and excessive soldering. In the past, manual screening was required, which took five minutes each, was time-consuming and laborious, and it was easy to make mistakes. Now, through industrial intelligence, machine recognition images are used to make judgments, and the product yield rate is increased from 99.2% to 99.55%, and the output of the manufacturing stage is increased by 30%.

To sum up, the so-called Huawei Cloud EI intelligent body is applied to the segmented scenarios to solve the problems of various industries, and is an intelligent solution for various industries, helping enterprises improve production efficiency, refine operations, and innovate business models, making the industry smarter. Huawei Cloud EI intelligent body uses intelligent brains, intelligent edge platforms, ubiquitous connections, and integrated industry wisdom to comprehensively analyze and return big data between people and people, objects and objects, and people and objects in the physical world. It feeds back the massive information and industry wisdom of the complex physical world through the calculation and analysis of intelligent bodies, and acts on the physical world. It is not only based on historical statistics, but also real-time perception, interaction, and optimization, thus truly realizing an intelligent world.

Huawei believes that AI technology is universal and non-discriminatory. For various industries in the intelligent world to achieve true intelligence, it is necessary to organically combine AI technology with the industry and create intelligent entities in various scenarios in the digital world.

"Deep Learning + Image Search" two services

Based on "Inclusive AI", Huawei Cloud has launched related application scenario services such as deep learning and image search.

Due to the large amount of training calculations, long training time, and high technical difficulty, deep learning has always faced commercial difficulties. Model training takes months and requires a large number of GPUs. Huawei Cloud Deep Learning Service adjusts the distributed scheduling strategy and deeply optimizes the algorithm. In a cluster of thousands of GPUs, the linear speedup ratio reaches 0.8, which means that models of hundreds of millions can be trained, and the training time is shortened from 30 days to hours.

In terms of image recognition, Huawei Cloud Image Search Service can easily realize image search and accurate comparison, and the search accuracy of the image search service exceeds 99%. China Photo Library Network uses Huawei Cloud Image Search Service to greatly improve the accountability process of copyrighted images, with an accuracy rate of 99%, effectively building a new ecosystem for the image copyright protection chain, and maintaining business beliefs with technological beliefs.

Zheng Yelai: We are never vague on the road to accelerated progress

Facing market competition, Zheng Yelai said: "I hope our services will get better and better. We are never vague on the road of accelerating progress. In the future, how far and how long Huawei Cloud can go will ultimately depend on the competitiveness of our products and services."

In an interview after the meeting, he emphasized that Huawei has never been stingy in its investment in technology, and has always been at the forefront of technology research and development. It may be unknown in the early stage, but opportunities always come to those who are prepared, and one day in the future, hard work will eventually pay off. Taking artificial intelligence research as an example, as early as June 2012, Huawei established the Noah's Ark Laboratory to conduct in-depth research in the fields of artificial intelligence and algorithms, and is committed to simplifying complex application scenarios. The display of many achievements today is inseparable from the initial investment.

***, he concluded: "In this era of great intelligence and accelerated digital transformation, it is also the worst era full of opportunism and easy to forget the original intention. We should do what we should do and what we should not do, return to the essence of business, provide better and better products and services to our customers, let our customers grow, make our customers valuable, and focus on value creation together."

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