Huawei's HiKey970 open platform has just been released, artificial intelligence is coming

At the Linaro Developer Conference in Hong Kong, Huawei released its artificial intelligence development platform "HiKey 970". It is understood that this is Huawei's third-generation development board, with more computing power, richer hardware interfaces, and supports mainstream operating systems and artificial intelligence stacks (AI stacks).

If the Kirin 970 chip released by Huawei last September opened the prelude to the end-side intelligence, the HiKey 970, which is now released, is the driving force behind the explosion of the AI ​​application on the driver side, which is of great significance.

Why do you need to wake up the sleeping side intelligence?

Before you can interpret HiKey 970 in detail, let's first talk about what is end-to-end intelligence and why you need end-side intelligence.

We all know that the development of artificial intelligence depends on three major factors: deep learning algorithms, high-quality big data and high-performance computing power. However, in reality, the focus of artificial intelligence is smart on the cloud side, that is, everyone is emphasizing the ability of cloud computing. The artificial intelligence of many companies, especially Internet companies, is the way to "return mobile phones from the mobile phone to the cloud and then back to the mobile phone."

Under the leadership of intelligent thinking on the cloud side, the role of cloud computing is infinitely magnified. Internet companies all claim to have an omnipotent brain in the cloud, which mines and analyzes the data collected by various terminals, and then intelligently orders various applications of various terminals. Some people even think that "the future Internet industry is using artificial intelligence to process big data in the cloud."

But the cloud side intelligence can't avoid three problems: First, what should I do if there is no network? Second, how to solve the problem of real-time data? Third, how to effectively protect users' data privacy? In particular, the third issue has received much attention recently. Whether it is the US Facebook crisis or the domestic big data killing, everyone is paying more and more attention to users' data privacy protection. Smart on the cloud side, the user's data will be uploaded to the cloud, who is the owner of the data, platform? Or the user himself? Which of these data can be used and which ones cannot be used? If these problems are not solved well, artificial intelligence will not be able to develop healthily and sustainably.

Corresponding to the cloud side intelligence is end-side intelligence, that is, the operation of data occurs at the terminal. The advantage of the end-side intelligence is that the user's mobile phone itself becomes its artificial intelligence assistant, and the user can select whether the data is shared or not. Specifically, if the user cares about their own data privacy, they can choose not to upload the data to the cloud, but under the support of the end-side intelligence, the mobile phone can process the user's own data, and can also bring the artificial intelligence experience. In this way, users will not reveal their own data privacy, but also enjoy the wisdom and convenience brought by artificial intelligence. Therefore, the future AI should be a collaborative mode between end-side intelligence and cloud-side intelligence.

In the past, the reason why the end-side intelligence was sleeping for a long time was because it required the terminal to have high-speed operation and low power consumption. It was not efficient to use the CPU for AI calculation. Until the second half of last year, this situation changed. Huawei's Kirin 970 chip and Apple's A11 bionic chip all use a specialized neural network engine for AI computing, thus promoting end-side intelligence. Take the Kirin 970 as an example. In terms of performance, its NPU is 25 times that of a normal CPU, 6.25 times that of a GPU, and consumes less energy.

The explosion of the end-side intelligence, the application of ecological prosperity is the key

The Kirin 970, A11 and other built-in special AI computing unit chips are introduced, making end-side intelligence a reality. However, this is only the first step. If the end-side intelligence wants to break out, it must have a prosperous application ecosystem.

This is because pure AI operations are meaningless, and only through AI applications can bring real convenience and different experiences to people. For example, in the Huawei Mate 10 series mobile phone with Kirin 970, the application that can display the AI ​​value is mainly taking pictures and translations. Because of the AI, you can automatically identify the scene when taking pictures, configure and optimize the parameters, and let Xiaobai You can also take photos of professional photography quality. For translation, the AI ​​operation on the end side makes the translation unnecessary on the cloud side, which greatly improves the speed of translation.

Obviously, this is not enough. AI makes mobile phones no longer just tools, but users' personal assistants. By analyzing, mining and deep learning the big data of user behavior, artificial smartphones can perceive and understand human beings, and actively provide users with intelligent wisdom. service. All of this requires application landing, but the application can not be done by the chip or mobile phone manufacturers themselves, and countless application developers need to join in, in order to develop a variety of rich AI applications.

The launch of the HiKey artificial intelligence open platform is for this purpose. Specifically, HiKey makes it easier for developers to develop various AI applications based on the Kirin 970 chip. Because not all developers can buy a mobile phone equipped with Kirin 970 chip, and the interface on the mobile phone can not perfectly meet the needs of developers. On the contrary, HiKey is a development board specially developed for developers. It is a magnified unicorn 970 chip and an AI development environment specially designed for developers.

It can be said that the launch of HiKey is of great significance to the promotion of AI. Previously, many AI application developers were based on CPU or GPU for AI application development, which was not efficient and limited their ability to develop related applications and imagination. HiKey's built-in NPU, which is designed for AI computing, has powerful performance. The Kirin 970 processes 2005 pictures per minute, while in the absence of an NPU, only 97 pictures are processed at the same time.

More importantly, HiKey's HiAI bottom layer provides hardware support for GPU, CPU, DSP, ISP and NPU. When the application is running, the chip will determine the workload and the delay requirement, and then automatically select the GPU or AI accelerator to execute. Correlation processing, in this way, can achieve the performance optimization process, and will open a new space for the end-side AI application developers.

The era of a smart phone is accelerating

According to Zhou Chen, director of marketing for Huawei's wireless terminal chip products, in addition to launching the HiKey platform to unlock a variety of ideas for developers, Huawei also provides a variety of ways to support and help developers. For example, Huawei is constantly updating the version of the upgrade development kit to make it more powerful and easier to use. At the same time, Huawei Consumer Cloud Services launched the “Yaoxing Project” last year, announcing a 1 billion fund to encourage developers to innovate and provide talent training, development support, innovation support, and marketing in areas such as AR/VR, AI, and IoT. Auxiliary and a series of funds and resources to support the development of applied ecology.

Through the HiKey artificial intelligence open platform and a series of support measures, we can see that Huawei's openness is amazing, and it is opening its own software and hardware tools to developers. Obviously, this is a win-win move. For developers, it is possible to develop applications for more than 300 million Huawei mobile phone users who are still growing based on the world-class AI platform such as Kirin 970. For users, smart phones and rich AI applications In order to truly make smartphones evolve into the era of smart phones, and get a good experience; for Huawei, rich AI applications will greatly enhance the appeal of Huawei mobile phones and promote the development of end-to-end intelligence.

Zhou Chen said that a large number of AI applications have begun to emerge, mainly focusing on visual video and live broadcast, as well as language and translation. This series of applications is the earliest application environment of AI technology and has been successfully Moved to the end side. But this is only the first step. In the future, based on the powerful end-side computing environment, it is more imaginative to use the wisdom of application developers according to user needs.

For example, AI is mainly used for scene recognition and parameter configuration of photographs. In fact, mobile phones with end-side intelligence already have their own brains, which not only "see" the world, but also "understand" the world. For example, for users who are losing weight, if you can take a picture of food, you can know the heat it contains. I am a gout patient. I always hope that some applications are to take a look at the food and know the devaluation of the food. In addition, I especially like an application called “shape color”. When I go out for a trip and take pictures of flowers and plants, I can know the name. Just because I want cloud computing, the recognition speed is very slow, if “end+cloud” is combined. Get up, I believe that there are many interesting and practical applications.

Moreover, in the AI ​​era, the end-side smart application does not necessarily appear in the form of APP, but is more intelligent and seamlessly integrated with the user's scene. Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, once said that artificial intelligence has pushed the smartphone software ecosystem from the APP era to the AI ​​era, subverting the entire industry ecosystem. Smartphone push capabilities will not only be limited to APP, but push methods will become more and more abundant. In the Huawei Mate 10 series mobile phone, the intelligent scene assistant has already achieved this point initially. The mobile phone automatically recognizes the schedule of the business trip in Shenzhen, and automatically pushes the ticket reservation, pick-up and other services. Recently, Huawei and other mobile phone manufacturers launched the fast application standard and instant application ecological alliance, also very imaginative, fast application + AI, will open a new door for application developers, lower development costs, more native The experience will be able to provide users with smarter, more contextual proactive services based on the terminal.

Recently, Huawei has become the exclusive title partner of the 2018 Go League. Huawei's action on AI is just like the close contact between AI and Go. When the technology encounters tradition, the new imagination space is opening. The launch of HiKey artificial intelligence open platform allows developers to fully exploit and utilize the capabilities and powerful computing power of Kirin 970 to open up their imagination to develop more and richer applications. Huawei alone, or a few developers can not describe the future, only more developers and users have joined in, in order to jointly create a situation of AI prosperity.

All in all, Huawei launched the HiKey artificial intelligence open platform, which is a major event in the development of AI. If the introduction of Kirin 970 and A11 chips opens the prelude to the end-side intelligence, the launch of HiKey is to open the curtain for the development of the end-side AI application. With the prosperity of AI applications, smart phones will truly jump to the exciting era of intelligent phones!

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