BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 31. Huawei Cloud enhances customer experiences, reshapes industry applications, and elevates cloud services, Vice President of Consulting Solution Sales Dept of Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia Roy Luo told Trend in an exclusive interview.
According to him, building a 'data-driven modern enterprise' has become the core goal of more and more enterprises and organizations.
"Data will disrupt everything, as evidenced by the exponential growth of data, cloud computing's faster data-driven acceleration, and artificial intelligence's inventive data convergence. Businesses are beginning to place a greater emphasis on the utility of data. The transition from "Data plus AI" to "Data4AI and AI4Data" is being fueled by the growth of foundation models, and data-AI convergence is starting to gain traction in the market. It clears the path for an effective data foundation, optimizes data value for AI, gets rid of data silos, lowers costs, and boosts productivity for businesses and governments," he stated.
Roy Luo noted that digitalization and intellectualization are deepening and becoming new requirements and features of the digital transformation of government and enterprise customers, which affects all industries, and the impact of artificial intelligence will help businesses across industries gain a competitive edge.
"At Huawei Cloud, our journey is marked by a steadfast commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions and ensuring the stability and security of our services. We envision a future where AI is an integral part of every industry, making businesses more efficient and innovative. Huawei Cloud has proposed an "AI for Cloud" and "Cloud for AI" strategy. By leveraging AI and foundation models, Huawei Cloud enhances customer experiences, reshapes industry applications, and elevates cloud services," the Vice President mentioned.
He stressed that today Huawei Cloud has served more than 800 governments, 500 financial institutions, 120 carriers, and many other top players worldwide.
"Huawei Cloud is aware of industry trends. Huawei is a real economy business with established digital skills. We can help other real-economy businesses transition to digital with benefits. For the whole process, from R&D through production and supply chains to sales and services, we offer cloud migration, data import into the lake, and AI enablement. This enhances user satisfaction, maximizes productivity, and fosters creativity. For instance, automating the creation of monthly operating reports in the smart finance space will cut down report generation durations from 18 days to 5," Roy Luo underscored.
At the same time, the Vice President added that the company has accumulated a wealth of digital experience in the Internet industry, especially in China, one of the world's largest Internet markets.
"For example, we help Weibo, the biggest social media platform in China, handle more than 50 traffic bursts every year. This ensures uninterrupted services for the microblogging platform with over 250 million daily average users during major events while supporting the continuous growth of user numbers. Huawei Cloud technology has also helped boost the user conversion rate by more than 20 percent for Xiaohongshu, a leading e-commerce and social platform in China with 450,000 new posts every day," he noted.
Speaking about the rapidly changing environment of customers from different industries, he stressed that in order to reduce the gap between technology and industry needs, Huawei proposed Pangu Model 3.0, an innovative hierarchical architecture with 5+X+N decoupling consisting of 5 - L0 foundation models, N - L1 industry-tailored models, and X - L2 AI applications.
"The L0 layer of foundation models consists of NLP, CV, multimodal, prediction, and scientific computing, which provide general skills to power an endless possibility of industry-specific applications. In our Pangu Models 3.0 series, we have built over 30 industry models, including Finance, Government, Meteorology, Healthcare, Education, Automotive, and Utilities, and have 400 AI use cases with over 150 partners for 200 customers. The data volume of each industry exceeds 50 billion tokens. It is a system of pre-trained models that can be quickly adapted to meet scenario-specific needs and address complex challenges across multiple industries," the Vice President announced.
Roy Luo stressed that Huawei Cloud adheres to the "AI for Industries" strategy, and that is why Pangu models have been developed, adding that by solving serious tasks, Pangu models will open up more opportunities for all industries in the Middle East and Central Asia.
"The launch of the Riyadh Region last year was a huge milestone as it will help Huawei Cloud provide better services for the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. Huawei will continue operating in the Middle East and leverage our unique strengths in cloud-network-edge-device synergy to bring cutting-edge cloud, AI, and other emerging technologies to the Middle East and Central Asia," he concluded.
