Huawei Cloud: Empowering Developers for a Thriving Ecosystem

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 in Shanghai, Kang Ning, President at Huawei Cloud Global Ecosystem, presented a keynote speech titled “Empowering Developers for a Thriving Ecosystem.” He highlighted the latest advancements in the Huawei Cloud ecosystem, showcased innovative initiatives to support developers, and announced the Huawei Cloud AI for Startups program.

Kang Ning stated: “Huawei Cloud serves as a central hub for developers, providing access to essential resources like Kunpeng, Ascend, and HarmonyOS to foster innovation.”

With 7.6 million out of 11 million Huawei developers now part of the Huawei Cloud ecosystem, the platform has launched over 150,000 APIs and assembled a team of 1,600 advocates to support the growth of over 5 million individuals.

Huawei Cloud Is Empowering Developers with Foundational Tech and Cloud Growth

Huawei Cloud continues to invest in tools, products, and open capabilities to enhance developers’ learning and utilization of Huawei’s technology.

Huawei Developer Space now offers every developer a cloud host, complete with preset resources for learning and application development. Kang revealed that Huawei Developer Space has upgraded its offerings to better meet developers’ needs, with a Membership Program available at basic, professional, and enterprise levels.

Developer Institute has enhanced its learning content, experience, and benefits, covering Ascend, AI, GaussDB, and HarmonyOS. By leveraging AI, the Institute fosters a learning-by-doing approach, supplemented by generative AI labs, which provides substantial advantages. To further support developers, more than 20,000 coupons and a fund of CNY5 million will be available to aid in course development.

Huawei Cloud’s investment in six cloud toolchains enables developers to build applications more intelligently and efficiently.

The AI development pipeline, ModelArts, equips developers with full-stack capabilities for model development. ModelArts Studio uses the Model as a Service (MaaS) approach and allows for model fine-tuning, deployment, and application. This capability halves training iteration time, improves inference and deployment efficiency by over 30%, and cuts computing costs by 40%.

CodeArts, the software development pipeline, is a native DevOps platform for HarmonyOS application development, supporting the generation of ArkUI and ArkTS code, unit cases, and multi-turn chats, significantly improving development efficiency.

Huawei Cloud also launched Pangu Doer, an assistant for SQL statement generation and data acquisition, pooling Huawei’s expertise in Pangu models and data governance to enhance developers’ data development and analytics efficiency.

To help developers focus on requirement development rather than engineering building, Huawei Cloud has built AppStage. It streamlines AI, software, and data governance pipelines. With this capability, developers can build cloud native and AI-native applications in one place and improve development and O&M efficiency by 50%.

In digital content production, MetaStudio provides services such as virtual humans, AIGC-based video production, and enterprise 3D spaces, enabling developers to quickly participate in digital content creation.

For hardware development, Huawei collaborates with industry partners to build CraftArts, the hardware development production pipeline, offering full-stack toolchain services including system design, mechatronics synergy, industrial simulation, and digital manufacturing.

Huawei has also established a team of 1,000 DTSEs to offer comprehensive services for developers, providing SaaS reconstruction, cloud-based innovation consulting, and architecture optimisation based on Huawei’s ecosystem capabilities. The Huawei Cloud Developer Program (HCDP) has empowered 230,000 developers and helped over 700 enterprises build more than 2,600 cloud applications, with enterprises also able to adapt their systems to HarmonyOS and Ascend to enhance service efficiency and business success.

Huawei Cloud aims to involve more developers in the open-source ecosystem, contributing to the Open-Source for Huawei ecosystem, where excellence is built on excellence. Huawei Cloud has built an ecosystem resource pool, launched the 1,000-card program for Kunpeng Cloud and Ascend Cloud, and upgraded the HCDP, offering up to CNY2 million in incentives to fuel open-source developer innovation.

Huawei Cloud also actively supports mainstream open-source communities. Jiang Tao, Founder of and Chairman and CEO at CSDN, officially released the GitCode AI Model Community built on developer requirements and industry mission. This community will become a new high ground for Chinese AI developers based on CSDN’s content and user resources as well as Huawei Cloud’s AI technology.

Empowering Partners for Competency Building and Business Success

Huawei Cloud is committed to competency-centric support for partners’ capability building and business development. This year, it has increased its investment in policies, organisations, and capability enablement, upgrading the Partner Competency Program, Partner Customer Engagement (PCE) Program, and Service Partner Incentive Program to deploy the ecosystem worldwide. The Partner Competency Program introduces new Pangu + X competency labels, building a series of labels based on Pangu models to strengthen model services and build industry solutions. By combining competency labels and PCE, Huawei Cloud aims to bring competitive advantages to partners and provide customers with reliable choices for win-win outcomes.

Huawei Cloud KooGallery has upgraded its global application distribution network, one-stop GTM and business opportunity management capabilities, and dedicated private offers for each customer. KooGallery has attracted more than 7,000 ecosystem partners and over 12,000 offerings, building industry-oriented support capabilities based on the Marketplace as a Service (MaaS) model for a win-win business future with partners and developers.

Kang emphasised: “Huawei Cloud highly values the innovation and development of startup partners and continuously invests dedicated resources and teams to build a global startup ecosystem.”

Huawei Cloud has launched the Startup Program in China, Asia Pacific, and Europe, providing over 5,000 early-stage startups with cloud service resources worth more than CNY200 million over the past two years. Through technical enablement, Huawei Cloud helps them migrate services to the cloud at a low cost and innovate efficiently on the cloud. Huawei Cloud Accelerator will provide in-depth enablement for growth-stage startups, accelerating their business growth and global development.

In the era of AI foundation models, startups face challenges such as high computing power costs, technical barriers, and difficult business implementation. To address this, the China-based cloud provider released the Huawei Cloud AI for Startups program, which uses the company’s leading computing power platform, technical ecosystem, and global business resources to enable AI startups to build diverse innovative use cases, accelerate commercialisation, and make AI a new productive force reshaping thousands of industries. Each AI startup can apply for Ascend Cloud computing power worth up to CNY1.2 million. Huawei Cloud will also focus on AI business acceleration to help hundreds of AI startups accelerate application innovation and business success.