According to Shi, Huawei is already working with Thai weather forecasters to deploy Pangu LLM, as well as working with various industries, such as finance, to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
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The plans for AI expansion in the Asia-Pacific region mark the company's efforts to diversify revenue sources and win over more overseas customers amid growing demand for its GenAI services across many traditional industries, even as the Shenzhen-based company remains blacklisted by the U.S. government.
According to Shi, the region is also one of the largest geographic markets for Huawei's cloud computing services, where the company first launched certain cloud products such as its “serverless database” solution before moving ahead with broader international expansion.
Last September, Huawei opened a data center in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh to provide public cloud services to customers in the country and other parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Huawei Cloud is now the second-largest cloud service provider in mainland China. Photo: ShutterstockHuawei is now the second-largest cloud service provider in mainland China after the cloud unit of Alibaba Group Holding, according to research firm Canalys. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
According to Huawei's latest annual report, cloud computing will be one of the company's strongest growth areas in 2023, with revenue from the business expected to reach 55.29 billion yuan (US$7.6 billion), up 21.9% year-on-year.
Huawei Cloud's Ascend AI platform is built on the company's homegrown processors and framework, overcoming U.S. sanctions that limit mainland China's access to American-origin technologies, such as advanced semiconductors. In mainland China, Huawei's Ascend AI chips currently serve as a replacement for U.S.-restricted Nvidia graphics processing units.
Cloud computing technology enables businesses to manage and distribute a wide range of software and other digital resources as on-demand services over the Internet, where those resources are stored in data centers, much like electricity is delivered from a power grid.
