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Huawei and GAC plans new smart electric SUV, aims mass produce by 2023
The GAC group has officially announced its partnership with Huawei to work on a smart SUV. Both of these tech giants are planning to begin mass production by the end of 2023.
Huawei is already a well-developed brand in various electric vehicle technologies. And further, the company keeps on doing its research on several new techs to make electric vehicles more productive.
The upcoming SUV is said to be a pure electric vehicle along with autonomous driving Level 4. This electric vehicle will be using power-efficient and futuristic technologies of Huawei and the resources of GAC.
This SUV and other future models will be using the GRP.30 Chassis platform of GAC and Huawei will contribute with CCA (Computing and Communication Architecture). Furthermore, they all will combine with Huawei’s intelligent vehicle solutions.
Huawei-GAC partnership
Huawei and GAC have worked together ever since 2017, both have signed a strategic cooperation agreement. This agreement relates both firms to work closely in the field of intelligent connected electric vehicles.
Last September, both of these companies extended their partnership and signed another agreement to develop a trend towards software-packed vehicles.
To further deepen their partnership, Huawei and GAC have gotten into another new project of developing a fully electric smart SUV.
Future of electric vehicles
A recent study on the EV vehicle market reveals that electric vehicles seem will pick up pace in the near future. The data speculates that the EV global market will increase by five times between 2016 and 2027.
Considering this data, the demand for EVs in the coming days tends to increase. The companies will have to increase production to meet those demands. Looking at this, both Huawei and GAC planned to produce eight models and multiple series of electric vehicles.
ChatGPT is a raging storm on the internet and everyone is talking about this AI-powered instant reply software but Huawei says, it has long mastered such technology.
A person in charge of Huawei’s computing product section said that Huawei began to have a layout in the large model in 2020. In the following year, Huawei launched Pengcheng Pangu, which is a super-large model and the first of its kind in the industry.
This model can generate 100 billion levels of processes and can generate responses or understand Chinese natural language processing as well as speech recognition.
To be mentioned, Pangu NLP large model was the world’s largest Chinese language pre-training model with 100 billion parameters at that time. The sample tuning of the data improves the application performance of the model in the scenario.
Patent:
Recently, two patents have surfaced on China’s intellectual property office, which reveal Huawei’s use of AI in instant reply software. However, we can say that Huawei has already applied a lot of AI software to human conversation technology, which was way ahead of ChatGPT. But Huawei has not revealed any plans to implement such tech in Huawei devices.
ChatGPT:
ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy, however, was identified as a significant drawback. Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s valuation was estimated at US$29 billion.
Read more here – Huawei patent new ChatGPT like reply software
After the events of the U.S. ban, Huawei had to reduce its capacity of building new smartphones, which result in low yield and sales, and now, Xiaomi claims that it took over 50 million of Huawei’s users.
During the Xiaomi Investment Day, Lu Weibing, President of Xiaomi Group said that Huawei has lost over 80 million smartphone users, of which, Xiaomi took over 50 million.
This is quite a big statement made by the head of the Chinese phone maker as Huawei was forced to leave the market due to the restrictions on manufacturing.
After not meeting the market requirements the share of Huawei’s smartphone market declined severely in both the Chinese and global markets. While other smartphone makers are the ones that got most of the benefits.
From the rest, Apple took over 20 million users and Honor grabbed 10 million, which accounts for an overall 80 million Huawei users.
According to the data revealed by Canalys, the global smartphone market ranked Samsung first and Apple second, which has increased by 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. While Xiaomi declined to 13 percent.
Aside from Apple and Samsung, other smartphone maker has declined. On this matter, Xiaomi’s president said that the decline in his firm is related to various reasons such as currency depreciation, chips from shortage to surplus, and intensified competition, the global mobile phone market will decline by 12% in 2022, of which the Chinese market will decline by 13%.
Why not?
It was an opportunity for all of the smartphone companies with an open opportunity to grab Huawei’s market share and it fell directly into their lap without doing anything.
(via – CNMO)
Turkey is underway a massive rescue operation and Huawei has raised a hand of help for the country to overcome the earthquake that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent people. During this time, Huawei has provided components, generators, and mobile base stations to help eliminate communication issues in earthquake-affected areas.
On Monday, Turkey is hit by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, destroying homes and leaving thousands wounded and homeless. As of today, over 17000 people had died in Turkey, surpassing the record of the last decade in the country. This earthquake has now made its place in the most deadly disasters of the century surpassing the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
