The Chinese's own operating system! Yu Chengdong took out the pure-blooded Hongmeng, and Huawei's AI big move was hard to Apple

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2024-06-21 17:45Posted on the official account of Beijing Zhidong

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Zhidong reported on June 21 that today, the sun was shining and warm in southern China, and Yu Chengdong came from the boiling applause in the Songshan Lakeside Ring Stadium and announced:

From today, pure-blooded Hongmeng has achieved full-stack self-development from the inside out.

Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT is a truly "pure-blooded" domestically developed operating system. This is another milestone node in the five years since the birth of Huawei HarmonyOS.

As Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei Device BG and chairman of Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, said, the Hongmeng kernel is the operating system kernel made by the real Chinese, which also completely ends the history of the operating system kernel dominated by the West for more than 30 years. In Yu Chengdong's words, Huawei has done what its European and American counterparts have done in 30 years in 10 years.

It can be said that today's Huawei has both Chinese "core" and Chinese "core".

At the same time, today, the HarmonyOS native application has entered a full-scale sprint stage, officially launching the Beta for developers, and sounding the rallying cry of HarmonyOS NEXT!

After announcing the blockbuster update of HarmonyOS, Huawei directly threw out the AI "nuclear bomb" - Harmony Intelligence (Harmony Native Intelligence). A series of AI capabilities such as AI mapping, AI sound restoration, multi-modal intelligent assistant, Xiaoyi agent and other AI capabilities are embedded in the system, and the shocking on-site demonstration attracted bursts of applause.

Today, Huawei can be said to be facing Apple's face to open up, and Apple Intelligence released by Apple last week, the audience at the scene understood it, and the shouts of "far ahead, always ahead" are endless.

Yu Chengdong said that HarmonyOS NEXT can achieve "a unified system ecosystem", and can be used by mobile phones, tablets, watches, and various IoT devices.

HarmonyOS NEXT can improve the performance of the whole appliance by up to 30%, and the distributed soft bus technology behind it can achieve a 3x increase in connection speed, a 4x increase in the number of device connections, and a 20% reduction in power consumption.

Huawei's HarmonyOS native intelligence emphasizes new human-computer interaction, personalized exclusivity, and all-scene intelligence, which have a lot in common with Apple's "five AI principles", such as the two giants emphasizing "personalization" and AI's "wide applicability".

When can we use such a powerful native HarmonyOS system? According to Huawei's update cadence, in the fourth quarter of 2024, the official version of HarmonyOS NEXT will begin to land on Huawei smartphones, earphones, tablets, and other products. This speed is obviously much faster than Apple's.

At the end of the developer conference, Huawei released its self-developed programming language "Cangjie", which has the characteristics of native intelligence, all-scenario, high performance, and high security.

1. The world's first device-side AI mobile phone was released, with more than 900 million Huawei HarmonyOS ecological devices

As early as 2017, Huawei released a smartphone equipped with NPU, which applied AI technology in the fields of photography and translation, Yu Chengdong said. In 2023, Huawei's AI model has begun to empower terminals, and Xiaoyi has used the model.

According to Huawei's report, the total number of connected devices in the world will reach 200 billion in the era of the Internet of Everything.

Today, the number of HarmonyOS ecosystem devices has reached 900 million, and the number of Huawei HarmonyOS ecosystem developers has reached 2.54 million, from mobile phones, tablets, TVs to car machines.

At present, the number of lines of code in open-source HarmonyOS has reached 110 million, of which Huawei has contributed more than 62 million lines.

At present, Huawei's HarmonyOS native applications have achieved 1,500 applications in the TOP 5000 applications.

Yu Chengdong specifically mentioned that this year will be the first year of 5.5G commercialization, and the world will enter the 5.5G era, and Huawei is the core promoter and builder of it.

2. In-depth dismantling of the operating system and AI moves, Xiaoyi incarnates "Jarvis"

After Yu Chengdong, He Gang, the newly appointed CEO of Huawei's Device BG, took the stage immediately after taking the stage to give an in-depth interpretation of key releases such as HarmonyOS NEXT and HarmonyOS Native Intelligence.

He Gang said that HarmonyOS NEXT is the largest upgrade in the history of Huawei's operating system, and it is an all-scenario intelligent operating system for the next decade.

Huawei's HarmonyOS native intelligence, Harmony Intelligence, is undoubtedly the focus of the audience's attention.

Judging from the HarmonyOS native intelligent architecture announced by Huawei, HarmonyOS native applications and Xiaoyi intelligent twins are the top layer, and the lowest layer is hardware and infrastructure, including AI processing on the device side and cloud side, and the cloud will be combined with the third-party model in addition to Huawei's own Pangu model.

AI functions in the fields of images, calls, documents, and search are processed on the device side, and AI capabilities are deeply integrated with various subsystems of HarmonyOS.

As you can see, the combination of device-cloud, self-development, and third-party large models are the two key strategies for Huawei's AI development.

As for the specific experience that HarmonyOS native intelligence can achieve, we are all familiar with AIGC image generation and photo expansion, but this time Huawei has released the AI sound restoration function for the first time in the industry, using AI to help people with language disabilities communicate.

In addition, Xiaoyi can help visually impaired users find the food in the refrigerator, intelligently identify what the food in the refrigerator is, where it is, and even judge the freshness of the food.

As He just said, Huawei hopes that everyone can enjoy the dividends brought by AI, and Huawei promotes the creation of native intelligent applications through AI-based controls, and many generative AI functions such as images, search, and text are open to developers in the form of controls.

The rhythm is very similar to AppleWWDC,After Huawei introduced Hongmeng native intelligence,Immediately after introducing Xiaoyi's blockbuster upgrade,Xiaoyi and Siri also launched a close hand-to-hand fight。

This time, Xiaoyi has been upgraded from an intelligent assistant to an "agent", and it is said that its knowledge has reached trillions of tokens, the TOP scenarios of memory perception have reached 23, and the task success rate of reasoning planning is 90%.

It is worth mentioning that,Xiaoyi also directly with the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen"Fusion",We only need to text、Images and other content are "fed" to Xiaoyi,Xiaoyi can understand the content and provide corresponding services and suggestions。

For example, if we send a picture containing data to Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi can generate an Excel sheet with one click, freeing up workers.

Submit the document to Xiaoyi, and Xiaoyi will directly generate a summary; Submit a picture to Xiaoyi, and Xiaoyi can directly identify the content in the picture.

In addition, Xiaoyi can better understand referents such as "this, that, here, and there", and has stronger context and multimodal capabilities.

Xiaoyi can also enable cross-app collaboration, such as extracting information from one app and sending it to a specific contact in another.

Xiaoyi can also help you find the specified material file in the mobile phone, and convert the page of the specified content in the file to PDF, and then Xiaoyi can also directly help you send these materials to colleagues by email, and the email text Xiaoyi can also complete the writing independently.

Xiaoyi is also open, the intent framework can understand the user's intent globally, complete the distribution of services, and the system of full-scene equipment, at present, there are more than 300 services accessed by Xiaoyi, covering more than 200 kinds of intentions in key vertical fields

Overall, Xiaoyi intelligent body can be a travel expert, office assistant, entertainment expert, life assistant, sports expert, and it is simply the "Jarvis" in science fiction movies.

In terms of security, Huawei also attaches great importance to data privacy and security protection in the AI era, which is similar to Apple's emphasis on security in WWDC. Huawei released the Starshield security architecture, which implements data privacy and security protection based on software and hardware synergy and HarmonyOS kernel.

Conclusion: Pure-blooded Hongmeng breaks through the underlying technology, from Chinese core to Chinese core, Huawei technology is king

Huawei has always been synonymous with technological innovation in China's technology circle, and the series of underlying technological innovations of HarmonyOS NEXT also represent a cutting-edge breakthrough in China's electronic information industry.

At the same time, Huawei has released a series of AI moves, which have achieved many breakthrough new features in the industry, and the game with industry giants such as Apple has become more and more anxious, and Huawei's AI moves will also become a depth bomb thrown by Huawei into the smartphone industry.

With the deep integration of AI, the operating system will inevitably usher in more innovative breakthroughs, facing the future era of intelligent connection of all things, HarmonyOS has a lot to offer.

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