Huawei unveils AI and Cloud Innovations at Mobile World Congress 2024

Islamabad: Huawei made waves at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in Barcelona, unveiling a range of cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud solutions.

The event showcased Huawei Cloud as a central player, with various teams introducing new products, solutions, and forums aimed at propelling global intelligence across industries, the company said in a statement issue here on Tuesday afternoon.

The MWC 2024 featured a host of events including product and solution launches, the Go Cloud Grow Global forum, and the Cloud Native Elite Club (CNEC) seminar.

The presentations covered an array of innovative products and real-world applications such as the Pangu models, GaussDB, data-AI convergence, virtual human technology, and advancements in software development.

As AI continues to reshape the world, Huawei remains at the forefront of technological innovation, focusing on accelerating intelligence across diverse sectors.

The company announced ten groundbreaking innovations, underlining the integration of cloud-native and AI technologies as a strategic move to propel global AI implementation.

During the Summit, Bruno Zhang, Huawei Cloud’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), unveiled the Global Leap Program under the Cloud Native Elite Club (CNEC). Themed “Leap with Cloud Native × AI,” this program aims to foster extensive technical exchanges, in-depth discussions, and best practice showcases.

With a global demand for resilient, adaptive, and comprehensive AI solutions, Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, shared insights into Huawei Cloud’s journey. She highlighted the rapid growth and innovation in cutting-edge technologies showcased at the Huawei Cloud Summit.

Shi emphasized Huawei Cloud’s vision of building an open ecosystem and platform, enabling customers and partners to access not just cloud services but also new opportunities and businesses.

She elaborated on Huawei’s ecosystem framework of “Go Cloud, Grow Cloud,” aiming to empower partners, particularly new developers and startups, to grow alongside the company. The goal is to collaboratively create scenario-based solutions tailored for vertical industries.

The Huawei Cloud, known as Koo Verse, boasts an impressive infrastructure with 85 Availability Zones (AZs) in 30 Regions across over 170 countries and regions. This global cloud infrastructure spans computing, storage, networking, and security, reducing latency to a remarkable 50 milliseconds. Powered by a distributed QingTian architecture and a high-speed interconnect bus (Unified Bus), the system enables heterogeneous, peer-to-peer, full-mesh computing.

Highlighting Huawei’s AI Cloud Service, which supports trillion-parameter model training, Chairman Bilawal said, “The training jobs can run uninterrupted on a cluster over thousands of cards for 30 days, 90% of the time.” Additionally, Huawei Cloud’s AI-native storage offers ultra-large bandwidth of 220 TB and ultra-low latency down to the microsecond. The SFS Turbo cache service enhances throughput and concurrency, enabling the warm-up of 1 billion data records in just 5 hours.

With over 120 security and compliance certifications, Huawei Cloud services prioritize robust security and compliance with the strictest global standards. The GaussDB, hailed as the world’s first AI-native database, features an enterprise-class distributed architecture and is certified CC EAL4+ for security.

Dr Nikos Ntarmos, Director of Huawei Central Software Institute’s Database Lab, highlighted the extensive 20-year database experience behind GaussDB. He emphasized its superiority for global users, especially for essential transactional and data processing needs.

In the realm of data and AI integration, Huawei Cloud’s LakeFormation streamlines data lakes, enabling shared data utilization across multiple analytics and AI engines without migration.

The collaborative pipelines of DataArts, ModelArts, and CodeArts orchestrate data and AI workflows, driving online model training and inference with real-time data. The AI4Data engine enhances data governance intelligently across integration, development, quality, and asset management.

Amidst the era of Artificial Intelligence, 3D Internet, and media evolution, Huawei Cloud Media Services has built an efficient media infrastructure. Jamy Lyu, President of Huawei Cloud Media Services, highlighted how Huawei Cloud integrates media services into industry-tailored solutions.

The MetaStudio content production pipeline, powered by AIGC-based virtual humans, accelerates content generation. Huawei Cloud Live, Low Latency Live, and SparkRTC enhance live experiences, while AIGC and 3D space services offer real-time user interaction.

The Huawei Cloud’s unified account, identity, permissions, network, compliance, and cost management enable enterprises to optimize resource usage efficiently. With seamless multi-tenancy and collaboration, organizations benefit from streamlined operations across personnel, finance, resources, permissions, and security compliance. Pangu model capabilities and services are adaptable to public, dedicated, or hybrid cloud environments, empowering customers to build and run dedicated AI platforms and foundation models with Huawei Cloud Stack.

In his address, Jim Lu, President of the European Region and Senior Vice President of Huawei, expressed optimism about intelligence opening new opportunities for Europe in the coming decade. He emphasized using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to unlock global intelligence potential, supporting digital and intelligent transformation across industries.

Huawei’s foundation models redefine traditional applications, making AI a catalyst for cloud computing growth. Bruno Zhang, Huawei Cloud CTO, affirmed, “Huawei Cloud will assist you with two strategies: AI for Cloud elevates your experience with AI and foundation models, revolutionizing software development and digital content production. Cloud for AI ensures seamless and efficient AI adoption, empowering users with architectural innovation, AI-native storage, and data-AI convergence.”

William Fang, Chief Product Officer at Huawei Cloud, highlighted the increasing demand for diverse cloud infrastructure due to AI and foundation model advancements.

He emphasized the necessity of collaborative heterogeneous computing, cloud-native computing with superior performance, extensive data storage, security compliance, lean governance, and flexible deployment. As foundation models gain widespread use, cloud computing emerges as the platform for innovation and AI model development. The integration of AI and cloud technology, spearheaded by Huawei Cloud, promises progress in global intelligence advancement, meeting the evolving demands of customers worldwide.