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Huawei Introduces AI Model Pangu 3.0
During its annual developer conference, Huawei unveiled two significant offerings: Huawei Cloud Pangu Models 3.0 and Ascend AI Cloud Services. The primary objective of Pangu Models 3.0 is to seamlessly integrate artificial intelligence into business operations, generating substantial value as a result. Ascend AI Cloud Services, on the other hand, are designed to expedite the training of AI models.
By leveraging Ascend AI’s cloud services, a single cluster can provide an impressive 2,000 petaFLOPS of computing power. Moreover, a cluster consisting of 1,000 cards can continuously train a model with billions of parameters for an uninterrupted period of 30 days.
The Huawei Cloud Pangu models cater specifically to the practical requirements of various industrial and commercial sectors. These models are built on a “5+N+X” three-layer architecture. The foundational L0 layer comprises five core models: NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), CV (Computer Vision), Multimodal, Prediction, and Scientific Computing. These models deliver fundamental capabilities that enable a multitude of industry-specific applications.
“The Pangu 3.0 models are available in different sizes: 10B parameters, 38B parameters, 71B parameters and 100B parameters to meet different customer needs and different latency and response time requirements,” explains Zhang Ping’an, Huawei Executive Director and CEO of Huawei Cloud. In addition, new features would be offered such as knowledge-based question and answer, text creation and code generation for the Pangu NLP model, and image generation and comprehension for the Pangu Multimodal model. All these functions are available to customers and partners and are consistent regardless of the model size (number of parameters).
Railway companies can use the Pangu Railway Model to accurately identify 67 types of freight cars and over 430 types of rail and freight car defects. “The AI software can quickly scan millions of images captured by the railway’s TFDS system and filter out 95 percent of the images that are error-free,” said Zhang Ping’an. This allows train inspectors to focus on the remaining images, helping them improve both efficiency and accuracy.
In meteorology, the Pangu Meteorology Model (or Pangu Weather) is the first AI model to outperform modern numerical weather forecasting (NWP) methods in terms of accuracy. The prediction speed is also several orders of magnitude faster. In the past, predicting the movement of a typhoon over ten days took four to five hours of simulation on a high-performance cluster of 3,000 servers. “The Pangu model is able to perform these calculations within ten seconds on a single server GPU – and with more accurate results,” explains Zhang Ping’an.
“In the field of drug research and development, it used to take an average of ten years and a billion US dollars to develop a new drug,” says Zhang Ping’an. “Now, the Pangu Drug Molecule Model can reduce lead discovery from several years to just a month and reduce drug discovery and development costs by up to 70 percent.” Using this model, a team led by Professor Liu Bing of Xi’an Jiaotong University recently discovered a new superantibiotic – the first new antibiotic in 40 years, with entirely new protein targets and in a category of its own.
“Previously, frequent GPU failures during training required frequent reboots,” comments Zhang Ping’an. “Stable Ascend AI cloud services help to reduce these time losses. The long-term stability of training with 1000 cards (30 days) reaches 90 percent, and interruptions are resolved within ten minutes.”
In addition, Huawei Cloud combines CodeArts with Pangu to create CodeArts Snap, an intelligent programming assistant for developers. “Trained with 76 billion lines of quality code and 13 million technical documents, CodeArts Snap makes generation, Q&A, and collaboration smarter,” said Zhang Ping’an.
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Huawei is getting ready to release a new super-thin phone called the Mate 70 Air. Some details about this phone have already been leaked online, and now a new picture has appeared showing what it looks like.
What the phone looks like
A promotional poster for the Huawei Mate 70 Air was leaked today. The phone looks similar to other phones in Huawei’s Mate 70 family, but it’s much thinner.
The back of the phone has a round camera area with Huawei’s XMAGE camera logo on it. The edges of the phone appear to be shiny and polished. The back cover has a textured surface, similar to another Huawei model called the Mate 70 Pro+.
What’s inside the phone
There isn’t much information available yet, but the Mate 70 Air might be a mid-priced phone. Early reports said it would have 12GB of memory and either 256GB or 512GB of storage space. However, newer information suggests it will actually have 16GB of memory.
The phone is expected to have a large 6.9-inch screen. It will also have a high-quality main camera.
Other features
Unlike Apple’s iPhone Air, the Huawei Mate 70 Air will have a slot for a physical SIM card. The phone will run on Huawei’s HarmonyOS 5.1 software. It will come in three colors: black, white, and gold.
Huawei is expected to launch this phone in November, around the same time as its Mate 80 series.
Tipster Digital Chat Station has confirmed that the Chinese tech giant Huawei will release new phones called the Mate 80 series in November. These new phones will have better designs, cameras, and speed.
The company is expected to compete with Apple’s new iPhone 17 phones. Huawei will make four different Mate 80 phones: the regular Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, Mate 80 Pro+, and Mate 80 RS. Each phone will have different cameras. The regular Mate 80 will have a 50-megapixel camera.
The Pro version will have a bigger 50-megapixel camera. The Pro+ and RS models will have even bigger 50-megapixel cameras.
The Pro model might have a flat screen and face recognition. The Pro+ and RS models might have curved screens that bend more.
The best phone, the Mate 80 RS, might have a 6.9-inch screen with special technology.
This screen should be brighter, use less battery power, and last longer than normal phone screens. Huawei might also use strong titanium metal for the frame and special glass on the back. Inside the phones, there will be a new chip called the Kirin 9030. The battery might be bigger than 6000mAh and charge very fast – 100W with a wire and 80W without wires. The phones might work with 5G internet and satellite communication.
The phones will use Huawei’s own software called HarmonyOS. This might work better with other Huawei devices and have more AI features. Some people think these improvements will help Huawei compete better with Apple, especially in battery life, communication, and smart features.
A Chinese company called HiSilicon Semiconductor just changed who’s in charge. The old boss, Xu Zhijun, stepped down from his job as the legal representative and chairman. Now the company’s CEO, Gao Ji, is taking over these roles.
Xu has been working at Huawei since 1993 and still has other important jobs there – he’s a vice chairman and sometimes serves as the rotating chairman. Him leaving this position is probably just Huawei moving people around to different jobs within the company.
HiSilicon is completely owned by Huawei and makes computer chips. This change in leadership might mean Huawei is trying to make things work better.
HiSilicon started in October 2004 when Huawei took its computer chip design team and turned it into its own company. The main office is in Shenzhen, but they also have offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities in China.