In the field of AI, Lenovo has strong computing power and data resources

At Lenovo's third Global Technology Innovation Conference, Dr. Rui Yong, Lenovo Group's chief technology officer, senior vice president, and an expert in artificial intelligence, began to show off his skills as soon as he walked onto the stage, successfully unlocking the Moto?Z2?Play phone by swiping his face, demonstrating one of Lenovo's latest innovations - deep learning algorithms and situational awareness technology, which can make it possible to view the phone by swiping the face. Play phone, demonstrated one of Lenovo's latest innovations - based on deep learning algorithms and situational awareness technology, can "brush face" to view cell phone information, intelligent scheduling of the virtual intelligent assistant CAVA CAVA. In addition to the "showmanship", as the "AI brain" of Lenovo, Dr. Rui Yong also introduced Lenovo's unique advantages and strategic layout in AI to the audience and partners.

Dr. Rui Yong, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President and Artificial Intelligence Expert of Lenovo, and Yang Yuanqing

He pointed out that algorithms, big data and computing power are the three main elements of AI, and that algorithms are like an engine when compared to a car; big data is the oil that provides the power; and the computing power is the wheels that drive the wheels forward. These three elements are indispensable, and Lenovo happens to have these three elements at the same time.

First of all, Lenovo's advantage in algorithms is twofold:

The first is the talent advantage, Lenovo has more and more world-class experts to join, there is a very abundant reserve of talent, Lenovo's algorithms will also have greater breakthroughs.

The second is Lenovo's understanding of the industry. Deep learning algorithms have been improving over the past few years, and the improvement of the algorithms relies on the close integration with various vertical industries, and only by combining with various industries can the algorithms really take root and grow. In this regard, Lenovo has business partners throughout the industry and geographic advantages throughout the country, so it is bound to lead the industry.

Secondly, in terms of data, Lenovo is the largest manufacturing enterprise data cluster in China, with more than 12PB of data, a data scale second only to BAT; at the same time, Lenovo has nine data centers around the world, with more than 2,000 servers. Every day Lenovo adds more than 30TB of data, and processes more than 15 billion pieces of data every day.

Lenovo's Unique Advantages and Strategic Layout in AI

Finally, there is computing power. Computing power in the era of distributed systems, the most important thing is the computing framework. In this regard, Lenovo's advantage is mainly to give full play to its ability as a system vendor on the integration of hardware and software, which can provide a global optimization solution for hardware and software, and the bottom layer can be integrated with GPU/FPGA and other computing engines, and in the algorithmic framework, support for large-scale parallel training of the AI platform.

As one of the three major foundations to support AI, powerful computing power gives life to AI, and supercomputing (HPC), especially AI supercomputing products, is an excellent platform to provide superb computing. As an early-starting supercomputing (HPC) vendor in China, Lenovo set up its High Performance Server Division in 2001 and began its exploration in the field of supercomputing (HPC). At the just-concluded ISC?2017, Lenovo was listed in the global HPC?TOP500 share list with 91 HPC systems, winning the first place in China for the third consecutive year and continuing to be the second place in the world; on June 30th, Lenovo also released a new independently-developed supercomputing cluster in response to the demand for computing power in the AI field - the Shenteng 8810, as well as the HPC + AI intelligent supercomputing platform LiCO.

Lenovo gives full play to its ability as a system vendor in the integration of hardware and software

In addition to the advantages mentioned above, Rui Yong also pointed out that Lenovo as a whole has a three-tier research and development system, and there are currently about 10,000 research and development personnel at Lenovo, and the globalized research and development team provides strong impetus for Lenovo's technological innovations, including artificial intelligence. The globalized R&D team provides a strong impetus for Lenovo's technological innovations, including AI.

For the future of Lenovo's artificial intelligence will be how the layout, Rui Yong said, Lenovo will focus on strength? Lenovo will focus on the two major areas of "device + cloud" and "infrastructure + cloud", adhere to customer orientation, adhere to the linkage of innovation and AI technology drive, and continue to strengthen the investment in the three technical directions of intelligent devices, intelligent cloud platforms and intelligent services. In the future, Lenovo will also be committed to exploring opportunities for the application of AI technology in life, work and society.