Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has launched a new system of pre-trained models called Pangu 3.0 that aims to revolutionize the industrial application of AI in weather forecasting, drug development, fault identification in trains and the mining industry.
Huawei executive director and CEO of Huawei Cloud Zhang Ping’an presented the Pangu 3.0 model and the Ascend AI cloud services during the company’s developer conference.
The company describes the Pangu Models 3.0 as a system that can be quickly adapted to meet scenario-specific needs such as in weather forecasting, drug development, fault identification in trains and applications in the mining industry.
“Huawei Cloud Pangu models will empower everyone from every industry with an intelligent assistant, making them more productive and efficient,” said Ping’an during the conference.
Huawei’s research on its Pangu Weather AI model has been published in the journal Nature, one of the world’s top scientific journals.
The paper describes how to develop a precise and accurate global AI weather forecast system based on deep learning using 43 years of data. The model showed to have higher precision than traditional methods and allows a 10,000 times improvement in prediction speed.
The model predicted the trajectories and landing times of typhoons, including the recent tropical cyclone Mawar in May this year.
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Mid-July, the company will introduce the first commercial case of Pangu Mining Model in Jinian Shandong province. Huawei has partnered with Shandong Energy Group to implement its model and optimize mining operations and make them less risky.
The Pangu Mining Model uses large amounts of data for pre-training, allowing for unsupervised self-learning in over 300 key coal mining scenarios. It applies AI in various coal mining operations, including excavation, tunnelling, machinery, transportation and communication.
For the railway industry, the Pangu model helps the safety and efficiency of freight trains and reduces labour onsite. The system also identifies problems in the transportation system, such as large coal blocks and anchors, with an accuracy rate of up to 98 per cent.
Other Huawei technology has recently been applied in conservation efforts for animals and corals.
Its Tech4Nature projects have helped identified a population of jaguars in the Yucatan Peninsula. It has also helped launch a new phase to boost coral reef conservation in Mauritius.
