Huawei announced at its Cloud Summit 2019 the launch of a Cloud & AI Innovation Lab in Singapore.
The lab will cultivate local AI talents, bridge Singapore with state-of-art AI technologies globally, and accelerate Cloud & AI innovations. All these missions line up well with Singapore’s Smart Nation initiatives. Backed by the compute power and a wide range of AI solutions offered by HUAWEI CLOUD, the lab will provide powerful AI services and resources, including AI R&D robots, Traffic Intelligent Twins, and AI development kits. The lab opening will deepen collaboration with local universities and enterprises in carrying out research.
AI developers and companies in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region will have the opportunity to join in more research projects and innovations on AI training and learning. These R&D activities will foster top AI talent and incubate more AI applications.
While the company would not reveal actual investment numbers, they said it would be in the “hundreds of millions”. The center is to be located at their Singapore office in Changi.
Edward Deng, President of HUAWEI CLOUD Global Market said: "Singapore is an international center of innovation, also a strategical hub for China-funded and overseas enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. HUAWEI CLOUD attaches great importance to development in Singapore and the Asia Pacific. HUAWEI CLOUD provides industry-leading full-stack intelligent cloud services to bring together government, universities, enterprises, and partners to innovate, and to help accelerate their intelligent transformation."
HUAWEI CLOUD also announced the launch of its "Go-China/Go-Global" plan to help more enterprises develop worldwide services. The company is committed to providing the worldwide Internet, gaming, finance, and video markets with a series of unique, advantageous services that connect users globally, adapt to various networks, and lead in new trends. This plan includes exclusive services such as:
- ARM cloud service for mobile phones.
- High-defense IP addresses providing service traffic isolation and DDoS attack prevention.
- Cloud video services with ultra-low distribution costs.
- Cloud video service able to ensure continued clear broadcast in sub-par network conditions.
- HD live broadcast for low-speed networks.
HUAWEI CLOUD will also cover key areas in Europe, Africa, China, North America, and Latin America. It provides unified management of accounts for efficient O&M and resource management, builds a stable international network with high-speed channels, and provides quality experience with its global service.
MOU and Talent Development Plan
During the summit, HUAWEI CLOUD signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with multiple companies to deepen cooperation in the Asia-Pacific market in the field of cloud computing and AI. They jointly released a program to build a better-connected, smart Asia- Pacific.
Huawei also announced an intelligent computing talent development plan to support Singapore’s “Smart Nation 2015” strategy.
Huawei has sponsored a series of AI knowledge training and skill competitions for university students in Singapore. It will later release a more detailed and systematic plan for local AI talent development, aiming to promote the development of the AI ecosystem in Singapore to support the country’s “Smart Nation” blueprint.