With the advent of AI technology, what does Beijing need? What can Huawei Cloud provide?

As the capital, Beijing's most attractive features are its profound historical and cultural heritage and its constantly surging industrial vitality. This capital located in northern China, in addition to its alleys, white towers and pigeon whistles, also has a high concentration of universities and scientific research institutions in the country, which continuously burst out new scientific and technological vitality.

The combination of the two forms a unique temperament that is both ancient and cutting-edge, conservative and open. Today, when AI brings opportunities for industrial upgrading to the whole society, the unique Beijing has been filled with a different color: Beijing today is the place with the most AI companies in China, the place with the most investment in AI technology and applications, the place with the most AI talents, and the place with the highest demand for industrial AI in the country - in other words, Beijing is a city that welcomes AI.

Such a city has outlined the most colorful Chinese AI city map, and Beijing’s experience and success in upgrading its industrial intelligence are also directly related to the future direction of China’s AI industry.

We know that Beijing welcomes AI, but what kind of AI does Beijing need and expect? Last Friday, Huawei Beijing City Summit 2019 with the theme of "Choosing Extraordinary Platforms to Adapt" was held in Beijing.

From what we have learned this day, we can perhaps try to answer the following three questions: What does Beijing need in the AI ​​industry era? What can Huawei Cloud provide? What have we gained today?

In the next second, rediscover Beijing

Every Chinese knows Beijing, but probably no one can say that he or she fully understands Beijing.

The city's rich history, complex industries, huge population base, and the countless stories and silences therein constitute a long scroll that is difficult to depict with human hands.

However, what Beijing really needs in the face of AI may not be an unanswerable question.

At the summit, Lu Yong, President of Huawei China Region, first introduced Huawei's overall strength in building a digital ecological city. He mentioned that Huawei has established cooperative relationships with many government and large corporate customers in Beijing, including signing strategic cooperation agreements with many customers such as Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, First Launch Group, Capital Normal University, BAIC New Energy, Bank of Beijing, and Park Administration, to jointly respond to the intelligent development needs of digital Beijing.

(Lu Yong, President of Huawei China Region)

As a promoter of inclusive AI that deeply drives Beijing's intelligent upgrade, Huawei is exploring the city's intelligent upgrade in order to better input AI technology from the cloud.

As for Beijing itself, it is not difficult to find many special features that other cities do not have. These special features put forward the following requirements for Beijing's AI industry:

First, Beijing has more governments and large enterprises, requiring AI technology and infrastructure providers to have large-scale industrial service capabilities, solid technical basics and absolute security guarantees.

Second, Beijing’s digitalization level is among the highest in the country, and on this basis it is tasked with exploring the new task of upgrading intelligent industries.

Third, Beijing’s urban structure is huge, and its intelligent needs are complex and diverse. Thousands of industries and sectors have a generally good acceptance of AI and very complex specific needs.

Such a unique urban industrial structure makes Beijing very special in the AI ​​era. Clear AI needs and AI progress are happening in every corner of this city. Hong Fangming, President of Huawei Cloud China, believes that driven by technologies such as AI, the extent to which enterprises move to the cloud determines the progress of the industry's digital transformation. Governments and large enterprises are gradually moving key and core businesses to the cloud and building new applications on the cloud. The key needs are mainly focused on industry applications, full-stack AI capabilities, and security and reliability.

(Hong Fangming, President of Huawei Cloud China)

These three key needs happen to be highlighted in the city of Beijing.

Obviously, Huawei Cloud believes that it is ready to provide an "extraordinary AI" that is in line with Beijing's temperament.

Huawei Cloud, Beijing flavor, extraordinary AI

Beijing is ordinary, with its hutongs and archways, but it is also bound to be extraordinary, as it is the focus of history and the starting point of the Republic. And the AI ​​that this city expects is just the same. It can do extraordinary things and be able to be ordinary.

As for what kind of AI capabilities and industrial advantages Huawei Cloud has brought to Beijing, Hu Weiqi, Vice President of Huawei Cloud China, analyzed the real situation of Huawei Cloud's AI capabilities empowering partners from the perspective of specific cases. From the perspective of a wide range of industries, we may be able to see some resonance between Huawei Cloud and Beijing's industrial culture at the AI ​​level.

According to Hu Weiqi, Huawei Cloud's AI capabilities have been deeply integrated with urban government affairs, urban management, environmental protection and water conservancy, industrial manufacturing and other fields. It can not only predict smog and manage urban rivers, but also promote high-quality industrial development. For example, Huawei Cloud AI improves the production efficiency of the coal coking industry through repeated deduction and training over a large amount of time and data; it helps the automotive industry improve data processing efficiency and reduce training costs for autonomous driving.

Wang Pengyi, vice president of Glodon, a digital construction platform service provider, also mentioned that Huawei Cloud has lowered the threshold for AI applications, allowing companies that serve detailed scenarios to apply AI technology more conveniently. Companies only need to explore application scenarios and then reflect the data on the platform. With this convenient method, Glodon can achieve 90% data structuring through intelligent analysis of videos in construction scenarios, promote safer and more sophisticated construction, and implement the requirements for processes and materials on components.

(Wang Pengyi, Vice President of Glodon)

In a large number of cooperation cases, we can see that Huawei Cloud's AI capabilities have demonstrated three market specificities, which happen to be coupled with Beijing's cultural genes.

1. The full stack and full scenarios of the government and large enterprises reveal the confidence of Beijing

Today, the most important thing for AI, especially for governments and large enterprises, is technical reliability and the integration of underlying technologies. Otherwise, AI can only be a castle in the air and cannot be truly applied. Huawei Cloud, which has mastered the underlying chip development framework, development tools and multi-scenario AI solutions, naturally has the confidence of a thousand palaces in the capital. Reliable technology, underlying interoperability, full-stack architecture, and full-scenario integration have formed Huawei Cloud's unique competitiveness in the AI ​​market.

2. Openness and tolerance to users embodies the industrial wisdom of Beijing flavor

In the past, when talking about the role models of businessmen, everyone would think of the shopkeepers in Dashilan and Liulichang. They advocated that harmony brings wealth, and that benevolence and righteousness are more important than business. They were neither humble to the strong nor arrogant to the weak, and always considered the other party. Such service capabilities and industrial wisdom are exactly what is needed in today's AI market. AI capability providers need to adapt to the development needs of different industries, cooperate with the industrial needs of large governments and enterprises, adapt to future technology upgrades and engineering deployment, and serve as the technical cornerstone of many industrial AI channels. Huawei Cloud, which advocates customer-centricity, brings Huawei's business wisdom to the AI ​​industry ecosystem. It is not difficult to see from many interviews on the scene that Huawei Cloud's uniqueness at this level has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. In the cooperation between Glodon and Huawei, we can find that Huawei Cloud has clearly planned the industrial division of labor areas for AI, creating the most user-friendly platform for partners to enhance the openness of the AI ​​industry ecosystem.

3. Build an ecosystem with developers to bring warmth to the people of old Beijing

Beijing is a city full of human fireworks. From autumn to spring, what really makes people remember this city are the ordinary people with strong human touch. Today's AI happens to be a proposition that needs human touch to answer. Today's AI must rely on the wisdom of developers and the prosperity of the development ecosystem to support future technology, talents, and business needs. And the still immature development community today needs more AI manufacturers to put themselves in their shoes. Another feature of Huawei Cloud's AI is that it values ​​the developer community and insists on removing the development threshold. From the tool empowerment brought by ModelArts to building an ecosystem, establishing an AI market, and setting up Huawei Cloud evangelists. Almost everything that can be considered for developers is available. Such AI is truly inclusive.

Huawei Cloud and EI, which are extremely compatible with the city of Beijing, are now truly flourishing in this city.

The AI ​​story of Sijiu City

After exploring what kind of AI Huawei Cloud has, we are particularly curious whether such AI is recognized by users and developers.

At the "DevRun Extraordinary Choice" Huawei Cloud Technology Salon 2019, developers shared their exploration and stories of Huawei Cloud AI technology. From these witnesses, we can carefully explore the value of Huawei Cloud AI technology capabilities.