Baidu Cloud Announces Hybrid Cloud Platform To Accelerate Enterprise Deployment of AI
September 20 2017 - 9:00AM
Baidu Cloud, the cloud arm of Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU), announced
today it has released the ABC – STACK, a hybrid cloud platform,
that provides enterprise customers with powerful and flexible
solutions to effectively integrate and deploy AI into their
businesses. These solutions range from ready-to-use software to
customized AI model development and training.
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Since its inception, Baidu Cloud has adopted an integrated
approach that combines capabilities and resources in AI, Big Data
and Cloud Computing, providing customers with not only storage and
computing but also complete solutions and services that are ready
to deploy. Baidu Cloud’s unique offerings have received recognition
from many industries. In only one year since its launch, Baidu
Cloud’s customer base has increased 10 times year-over-year,
traffic increased eight times and revenue increased four times.
The ABC – STACK encompasses three areas of cloud
computing:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS):
- To meet the enterprise and developers’ needs in the AI era
for parallel and heterogeneous computing, ABC – STACK offers
complete commercial processors such as FPGA, GPU and Intel Xeon Phi
to enable customers to develop leading edge AI and large data
analytics. Altogether, these high performance networking and
storage solutions form a distributed, scalable AI
infrastructure.
- In addition, Baidu Cloud also released XPU, an FPGA-based AI
processor, which Baidu designed using a next-generation AI
processing architecture. XPU has dedicated computing units and
hundreds of processors that achieves the versatility of the GPU and
the efficiency of the FPGA.
- For the on premise deployment of ABC-STACK, Baidu Cloud
introduced an all-in-one ABC machine with 64 GPUs in one server,
and one cluster supports parallel deployment of 1,000 servers.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS):
- ABC – STACK supports major AI frameworks like PaddlePaddle and
end-to-end Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS).
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS):
- ABC – STACK is the gateway to more than 60 AI capabilities
developed by Baidu, which are available as a set of open APIs and
SaaS products in the Baidu Cloud.
- These capabilities include video content analysis (VCA), image
recognition, facial recognition, speech recognition and more. For
example, a streaming site could use Baidu’s VCA technology to let
AI automatically select the most optimal frame as the cover for its
videos.
- For customers who want to deploy a Baidu trained AI model, it
can be provided in two ways -- through an application solution
developed by Baidu Cloud or an open API.
“The ABC – STACK is the embodiment of Baidu’s ABC strategy
integrating our AI, Big Data and Cloud Computing capabilities,”
said Ya-Qin Zhang, president of Baidu. “Cloud computing has entered
the 2.0 era, and we are providing enterprises with competitive
capabilities to leverage big data and AI analytics.”
“In addition to helping customers reduce cost and boost
efficiency, which you can achieve with traditional cloud offerings,
the ABC intelligent cloud makes a more profound impact by
creating new business models,” said Zhang.
Some of Baidu Cloud’s early partners have already demonstrated
how ABC – STACK has the potential to transform their businesses.
Shougang Automation and Information Company Ltd, a subsidiary of
steel giant Shougang Group, used an ABC – STACK enabled AI solution
to automatically review and identify inferior steel products with a
99.98 percent accuracy.
“The accuracy rate of the detection solution for our steel
products greatly exceeded our expectations. It strengthens our
determination to deepen the partnership with Baidu Cloud to unlock
the full potential of AI for our manufacturing operations,” said
She Guoping, general manager of Shougang Automation and Information
Company Ltd.
In collaboration with Shanghai Electric, a power
generation and electrical equipment manufacturing company in
China, Baidu Cloud also developed a failure prediction model for
its wind turbines with more than 85 percent accuracy.
Wasu Group, one of China’s biggest media companies with 30
million cable TV subscribers, developed voice enabled TV set top
boxes and a video content recommendation system using Baidu Cloud
based capabilities.
Baidu also announced a partnership with UnionPay, the largest
card payment organization in the world based on payment
transactions, schemes and number of cards issued, to jointly build
China’s first financial service centric cloud platform in the city
of Wuhan, China, supporting leading edge AI enabled business models
such as using facial recognition at point of purchase.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. Baidu aims to make a complex world simpler through
technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
under the symbol "BIDU". Currently, ten ADSs represent one Class A
ordinary share.
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