Huawei Cloud last week held the TechWave Summit Middle East & Central Asia 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event witnessed the launch of a range of new AI solutions, release of a Pre-Trained Models White Paper and announced a new Huawei Cloud Stack (HCS) to accelerate the intelligent upgrade across governments and industries for Middle East and Central Asia.
Held under the ‘AI for Industries’ theme, the TechWave Summit brought together leading Huawei Cloud experts, customers and partners explored how AI, powered by the latest advances in Cloud, is driving new value and accelerating the digital economy. At the event, Frank Dai, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia, highlighted Huawei’s first mover-advantage in industry digitalization. “We believe AI for Industries will be the next big tipping point. Huawei Cloud offers pre-trained Pangu models with hundreds of billions of parameters to help drive industrial-scale AI development so that AI’s power can truly be unleashed across industries.”
During his keynote, Dr. ZHU introduced the Huawei Pre-Trained Models White Paper, which explores topics such as the future of AI, opportunities and challenges of pre-trained models, and Pangu Model case studies.
To further explore the application of AI across industries, Huawei Cloud held an AI roundtable together with Prof. Peter Sachsenmeier (Fellow of German National Academy of Science and Engineering), industry experts, and leading companies to share and discuss the latest AI trends, best practices of AI applications, the impact of large models on AI adoption, and how to accelerate AI adoption in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Johnny Lyu, the International Business Director of Huawei Cloud Stack, officially launched Huawei Cloud Stack 8.2 in the Middle East & Central Asia. “We hope to leverage Huawei Cloud Stack 8.2 to bring new vitality to the hybrid cloud market while accelerating intelligent upgrades and unleashing digital for more enterprises,” he added.
Meanwhile, Uzbekistan has emerged as a digital government leader. At the event, the Deputy Director of Uzbekistan E-Government Center, Makhmudov Khozhiakbarkhon Makhsumovich, shared his stance on how Huawei Cloud Stack helped Uzbekistan implement the e-government project management center.
Huawei Cloud aims to build a cloud foundation for an intelligent world with Everything-as-a-Service. Meanwhile, Huawei Cloud, together with partners PERCENT, Universal Language Tech, and Emotech launched a series of joint solutions, comprising of five joint Big Data Solutions, four joint AI Solutions, and three joint Multimodal AI Solutions to accelerate industry intelligence.
New AI solutions with Cloud for Middle East & Central Asia
