[China, Shanghai, July 6, 2023] Ascend Artificial Intelligence Industry Summit Forum was held in Shanghai. At the forum site, large-scale model joint innovation was launched. 26 industry leaders, scientific research institutes and Huawei will jointly carry out basic large-scale model and industry large-scale model application innovation based on Ascend AI. At the same time, Huawei and its partners jointly released the Ascend AI large-scale model training and push integration solution to accelerate the application of large-scale models in various industries, and 23 Ascend AI partners launched AI servers, intelligent edge and terminal new products to jointly provide intelligent solutions for the industry. Provide a wealth of products and solutions through modernization upgrades.
Hu Houkun, Huawei's rotating chairman, said in his speech that with the breakthrough of generative AI brought about by large models, artificial intelligence is entering a new era. Through system-level innovation, adherence to open source and openness, and deep cultivation of the industry, Huawei will accelerate the prosperity and development of the Ascend artificial intelligence industry ecosystem, and jointly innovate with partners to promote artificial intelligence to go deeper and more practical, and use powerful computing power to support the high-quality development of artificial intelligence.
The prosperity and development of Shengteng industry is inseparable from the leadership and contribution of experts, scholars and industry leaders from all walks of life. Last year, the first batch of honorary consultants and MVPs were announced, providing forward-looking guidance, consultation and suggestions for the development of the Ascend industry, and actively participating in the development of the Ascend artificial intelligence industry, especially in large-scale joint innovation and scientific intelligence (AI For Science) , Industrial development, ecological construction, industry-university cooperation and other aspects have achieved remarkable results. This time, Hu Houkun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, issued a letter of appointment as an honorary consultant to Zhang Bo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yang Chaobin, a director of Huawei and president of ICT products and solutions, issued a letter of appointment to the MVP of Shengteng.
Ascend AI leads computing power innovation and launches the first Wanka AI cluster
On the basis of individual point innovations, Huawei gives full play to the comprehensive advantages of cloud, computing, storage, network, and energy, carries out architectural innovation, and launches the Ascend AI cluster with the concept of "DC as a Computer". At present, the Ascend AI cluster has supported the construction of artificial intelligence computing centers in 25 cities across the country, and seven of the city's public computing power platforms have been selected as the first batch of national "New Generation AI Public Computing Power Open Innovation Platforms". In this forum, Huawei announced that the Ascend AI cluster has been fully upgraded. The cluster size has been expanded from the initial 4,000-card cluster to 16,000-card. , ten times ahead of the industry.
Consolidate the whole process enabling system of large models and accelerate the innovation of large models
Under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and China Electronics Industry Standardization Technology Association, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the Fifth Electronic Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Huawei and other units jointly established the "Large Model Industry Working Group" to jointly promote China's large-scale Model application landing and industrial incubation.
Last year, Huawei released a full-process enabling system for artificial intelligence large-scale models. This system covers the entire process from planning, development to industrialization, enables the development of large-scale models, and builds China's large-scale model ecology with the industry, creating a new model for large-scale model industrialization. , At present, based on the surging computing power of Ascend AI, there are more than 30 large-scale models originally developed and adapted, accounting for nearly half of the large-scale models in China. In order to further promote large-scale model innovation, Huawei joined hands with 26 financial, operator, Internet and other industry leaders, scientific research institutes and universities to jointly launch the Ascend AI large-scale model joint innovation. Huawei will provide surging computing power and high-efficiency Develop tools, work with partners and customers to improve the efficiency of large model development, training, fine-tuning, and deployment, and accelerate the launch of large model innovative services.
Facing a series of challenges such as the long R&D cycle of large models, high deployment thresholds, and business security, Huawei and four partners jointly released an integrated solution for training and pushing large models. The advantages of an integrated platform, through joint design, joint development, collaborative listing, and continuous iteration, provide industry customers with "out-of-the-box" large-scale integrated solutions, reshape the large-scale model development process, and solve a wide range of large-scale model implementation needs in various industries , so that the large model can give full play to its value in the industry.
AI empowers scientific research and accelerates scientific research innovation
As another important field of artificial intelligence, scientific intelligence is showing a rapid development trend in terms of models and basic software, and the transformation of scientific research results into industries is also accelerating. The Institute of Scientific and Technological Information of China released the "China AI for Science Innovation Map Research Report" for the first time. The report provides a detailed introduction to the development trend of AI for Science, global research priorities, domestic development status and development suggestions for the next stage. Ascend AI builds rich scientific intelligence suites such as fluid simulation, electromagnetic simulation, and molecular simulation. On the basis of improving system performance, it shields the development difficulties brought about by cross-fields, and greatly accelerates the speed of scientific research and innovation.
At present, Ascend AI has demonstrated exponential performance improvement effects in many scientific research fields. Based on the 3D supercritical wing fluid simulation large model "Dongfang. Wing Wind" developed by Shengteng AI, using Shengsi MindSpore Flow fluid simulation suite, combined with the experience and data of experts in the fluid field, to realize the full-scenario flight conditions of large aircraft airfoils The speed of simulation and three-dimensional airfoil design of large aircraft has been increased by 1000 times, and the generalization ability of AI + general aerodynamic simulation has been built to accelerate the leap-forward innovation in the field of aerodynamics for the national economy and the people's livelihood industry.
Ascend AI continues to open up and prospers the industrial ecology with partners
Ascend's AI industry is developing rapidly. It has developed more than 30 hardware partners and more than 1,200 ISVs, and has jointly launched more than 2,500 industry AI solutions, serving operators, the Internet, finance and other industries on a large scale.
Huawei continues to open AI modules, accelerator cards, etc., and provides a wealth of interface development documents and reference designs, as well as software and hardware technical support, enabling partners to launch a variety of hardware products and stimulating innovation in the market. At this conference, 23 companies launched Ascend AI series of new products, covering inference servers, training servers, edge computing intelligent gateways, industrial computers, developer kits, robots, drones and other rich types. In addition, Huawei has newly launched the "Ascend Partner Network" (APN) partner program, which will encourage partners through the sales support provided by the general distributor, the technical support model between Huawei and the general distributor, and various business rights incentives. Create products or solutions of your own brand based on Ascend AI.
During the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), the Ascend Artificial Intelligence Industry Summit Forum hosted by Huawei was held in Shanghai on July 6. With the theme of "Building the Foundation of Intelligence Together and Winning the Intelligent Era", this industry summit forum invited academicians, experts, scholars, business leaders and other industry representatives to focus on industrial hotspots such as large models and AI4S, and explore cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies. Seek the way for artificial intelligence to go deeper and more realistically in the industry, and win the era of intelligence together. To learn more about Ascend AI, please visit: hiascend.com