Huawei Cloud announced its Cairo region, making Huawei the first company to launch a public cloud in Egypt.
The Cairo region covers 28 African countries and contributes to Huawei Cloud’s support for the digital transformation of vertical industries. Announced at the Huawei Cloud Summit in Cairo, the Cairo region announcement brings the total number of Huawei Cloud regions to 33 worldwide.
The Cairo region will provide innovative, reliable, secure and flexible cloud services to individuals, businesses and government users and serve as an important digital infrastructure. Huawei Cloud offers innovative services on its platform, including the DataArts data governance pipeline, including GaussDB database, and the ModelArts AI development pipeline.
“Together with the Cairo region, we are bringing our most innovative technologies to the country to further help Egypt unlock the potential of digital transformation,” said Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Services at Huawei Cloud. “In addition, the Cairo region launch is an important milestone in Huawei Cloud’s ability to enhance our services to customers in 28 African countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia and Algeria.
Huawei Cloud also released a new Large Arabic Language Model (LLM). The new Arab LLM constitutes an important step in supporting companies in the region in the digital transformation of vertical industries. The automatic speech recognition (ASR) service supports functions covering more than 20 Arabic-speaking countries, with an accuracy rate of up to 96%. This is the industry’s first 100 billion parameter Arabic LLM. The model was trained with native Arabic data, ensuring an accurate understanding of the local culture, history, knowledge customs and more of the Arab world, rather than relying on a body of work and translations in English. As an important part of Huawei Cloud’s Pangu model efforts to support vertical industries with AI capabilities, model training is based on industrial datasets spanning digital energy, oil and gas, finance and much more.
Shi continued: “We believe that every country should have AI capabilities to preserve its local culture and that AI models should be developed and trained in local languages, enabling vertical industries to become more efficient. »
Huawei previously announced that it would invest $300 million to establish the first public cloud region in Egypt, offering more than 200 cloud services, including AI platforms, data platforms and development platforms. To nurture a thriving ecosystem, Huawei will invest $200 million to support 200 local software partners, to empower 1,300 channel partners, and ultimately to build a thriving local software and applications ecosystem. In the region, Huawei will invest $30 million to train 10,000 local developers and educate 100,000 digital professionals, to drive intelligent transformation in the region. To further accelerate the development of the ecosystem, Huawei Cloud announced upgrades to its startup program in Egypt, including an advanced cloud platform, training programs and sales resources.
The Huawei Cloud Startup Program appoints dedicated teams to advise startups on cloud adoption and subsidizes their cloud consumption. A single startup can apply for cloud credits worth up to US$150,000.
Huawei Cloud is the second largest cloud service provider in China, according to research firm Canalys. The company has continued to expand its global presence, opening new data centers in Turkey and Saudi Arabia last year and operating a total of 93 availability zones in 33 regions around the world.
Huawei Egypt was founded in 2000. Huawei is committed to collaborating with more than 350 local partners and enriching the local ecosystem. In terms of supporting ICT talent, the company has established 90 ICT academies, a flagship “Seeds for the Future” program and an ICT competition. These talent programs have benefited more than 35,000 Egyptian ICT talents.
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