Huawei Cloud ModelArts Maintains Top Spot in China Machine Learning Platform Market

Sep 27, 2024

Huawei Cloud ModelArts has taken the top spot in the machine learning platform market, according to IDC's China AI Public Cloud Service Market Share, 2023: Reshaping Cloud Services with Foundation Models (Doc# CHC52519024, August 2024). It also ranked number one in IDC's China AI Software Market Share, 2023: Foundation Models Bring New Opportunities (Doc# CHC52518824, August 2024).

According to IDC, ModelArts is a one-stop AI development platform that enables users to rapidly build, deploy, and manage AI models. It boasts exceptional scalability, with ultra-large-scale training clusters achieving a linear scheduling rate of over 95%. This allows for uninterrupted training of 100-billion-parameter models, for up to 40 days. With a wealth of industry-specific case studies in government, transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing, ModelArts has proven its value in various sectors. Furthermore, Huawei Cloud's full-stack capabilities, combined with its key compute products and Pangu Large Models (PanguLM), empower industries to seamlessly upgrade to intelligent solutions.

China's AI software market reached CNY37.74 billion in 2023, a 26.2% increase from the previous year. The rapid adoption of foundation models and generative AI technologies is driving a new era of AI applications, expanding into new areas.

As AI continues to evolve, enterprises must balance technological advancements with practical implementation. Emerging technologies like text generation and image synthesis enhance AI product diversity and real-world effectiveness. To stay ahead, Huawei Cloud ModelArts is innovating to simplify AI application development and deployment for developers.

Heterogeneous Compute Enhances Finance: ModelArts Speeds Up Foundation Model Deployment

Huawei Cloud ModelArts drives the development of foundation models in China, collaborating with industries to create an end-to-end enablement system from planning and development to industrialization.

In finance, foundation models face challenges like high compute needs, expensive training and inference costs, poor data quality, and security concerns.

Huawei Cloud offers specialized AI computing hardware, high-performance compute clusters, and flexible frameworks, empowering financial customers to build foundation model compute centers equipped with thousands of cards. ModelArts streamlines the process from model development to deployment, helping customers overcome high costs, lengthy development times, and low iteration efficiency in large-scale applications.

Ascend AI Cloud Service Powers iFLYTEK Spark Model with Stability and Efficiency

iFLYTEK Spark model is an AI model developed by iFLYTEK, boasting seven key capabilities: text generation, language understanding, knowledge Q&A, logical reasoning, math skills, coding abilities, and multi-modal processing. It can tackle tasks through seamless natural conversations. iFLYTEK Spark model spans a wide range, from hardware to industry solutions and ecosystem partnerships. The Spark model is used across various sectors, including education, healthcare, finance, automotive, telecommunications, and manufacturing. To keep pace with market demands, service development needs rapid response and timely access to computing resources. However, building compute facilities cannot match the speed of service growth. To bridge this gap, iFLYTEK aims to leverage a hybrid cloud and local compute model for large-scale training, enabling quick allocation and flexible use of compute resources.

iFLYTEK and Huawei Cloud's Ascend AI Cloud Service team collaborated to deploy and train Spark Model 3.0. Ascend AI Cloud Service provided stable compute resources, allowing for over 50 days of continuous training without interruption. Meanwhile, intelligent O&M ensured zero faults during training, significantly boosting model training efficiency and supporting the successful release of iFLYTEK Spark Model 3.0.

Huawei Cloud: Full-Stack AI Empowers Industry Innovation

Huawei Cloud has a wealth of experience in applying AI solutions to government, transportation, healthcare, and industry sectors. Its core AI products include ModelArts, PanguLM, and Ascend AI Cloud Service. Huawei Cloud also offers a range of AI services, such as NLP, conversational bots, speech interaction, image recognition, content moderation, and image search. Huawei Cloud's full-stack AI solution combines its own compute resources with the MindSpore AI framework and industry-specific upper-layer solutions.

With its expertise and innovative spirit, Huawei Cloud has developed CloudMatrix, a cutting-edge AI-native cloud infrastructure that combines diverse compute, scalability, and efficiency. This innovative platform interconnects and pools resources like CPUs, NPUs, DPUs, storage, and memory, transforming traditional monolithic compute into a flexible matrix compute model. CloudMatrix enables customers to tap into immense AI compute power, driving their digital and intelligent transformation in the AI era.