SHANGHAI, CHINA: Huawei’s Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ICT Strategy and Marketing, Peng Song, delivered a keynote speech at HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, outlining the company’s goals for building a flourishing AI ecosystem over the next five years. During the speech, Peng discussed how to build a flourishing AI ecosystem and how foundational technology breakthroughs and ecosystem prosperity drive a surge in productivity.
Huawei aims to foster open collaboration with all ecosystem partners, empower developers, and drive talent development to advance the AI ecosystem. The company has made many AI-related foundational software and hardware technologies open source or available to partners and developers, allowing Huawei to work with its partners across the industry value chain to build Kunpeng, Ascend, and Huawei Cloud communities, laying a strong foundation for the AI ecosystem.
Peng said, “Today, we believe that every country and enterprise deserves access to computing power for further development. As a computing and cloud service provider, we will work alongside server partners, basic software partners, application software partners, consulting and integration service providers, cloud partners, and all manner of developers, to share the huge opportunity presented by the computing ecosystem and drive a surge in productivity.
To foster a new AI ecosystem, Huawei has made many AI-related foundational software and hardware technologies open source or available to partners and developers. This has allowed Huawei to work with its partners across the industry value chain to build Kunpeng, Ascend, and Huawei Cloud communities, laying a strong foundation for the AI ecosystem. In addition, Huawei and its ISV partners have supported AI computing centers in 25 cities across China, and natively incubated and adapted more than 50 foundation models.“
Huawei adheres to the strategy of open hardware, open-source software, partner empowerment, and talent development. The company’s goals for the next five years include having more than five server partners with an annual revenue of over CNY10 billion, increasing the number of installations of the openEuler commercial OS to over 20 million, and drawing more than 4 million developers to the MindSpore community. Huawei also aims to have more than 20,000 application partners and increase the number of Kunpeng, Ascend, and Huawei Cloud developers to more than 8 million, 5 million, and 10 million, respectively.
Talent is the foundation of the AI ecosystem, and Huawei has developed a customized training system targeting university teachers and students, developers, and scientific researchers. The company strives to continually drive technological innovation in the AI ecosystem by carrying out a range of activities, such as ICT Academy, Intelligent Base 2.0 program, ICT Competition, Ascend DevFest, and Ascend AI Innovation Competition.
When discussing talent, Peng stated, “Talent is the foundation of the AI ecosystem. We have developed a customized training system targeting university teachers and students, developers, and scientific researchers. We strive to continually drive technological innovation in the AI ecosystem by carrying out a range of activities, such as ICT Academy, Intelligent Base 2.0 program, ICT Competition, Ascend DevFest, and Ascend AI Innovation Competition.“
Finally Peng called on everyone to “work together to advance a flourishing AI ecosystem and provide another option for the world.” Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, with a vision and mission to bring digital to every person, home, and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. For more information
