a Huawei provided more details on Friday about the new version of its mobile operating system. At the programmers' conference held in China and several other news. Hey The event was inaugurated by the company's CEO of the Consumer ZoneHe praised technology's ability to innovate, in the face of all the setbacks imposed on it, and stressed that Huawei was able to innovate more in the past ten years than Europe was able in three or four decades.
“Harmony has made great progress. It can be said that we have achieved in 10 years what took our European and American counterparts more than 30 years, in terms of developing technology based on an independent operating system,” said Richard Yu. , quoted from Reuters.
The responsible person said in the same presentation that HarmonyOS has been installed on 900 million devices He also took the opportunity to emphasize his platform He goes upOne Artificial intelligence infrastructurel With processors and services, it is The most powerful Chinese company and the second most popular company in the worldRight after Nvidia.
In the ads themselves, The future “pure” version of HarmonyOS is one of the stars. This means that it is the first truly free Android app; It is not based on the Android architecture, and does not provide the ability to fight with applications developed for the platform. Hey Harmony OS Nextwhich the brand is developing, They will be used in all branded products, from smartphones to computers, tablets, cars or wearables, the Nikkei website details. At the ceremony, it was confirmed that Latest trial version It's done and ready to try. This is the last stage before the official launch and final release, which is supposed to happen later this year. The most popular model of the brand at the moment is The Mate 70 phone is supposed to receive the new operating system version later this year.
“It is different from other operating systems out there, where each type of hardware requires specific software. Harmony OS Next is an integrated system,” explained Richard Ho.
Remember that HarmonyOS was started by Huawei as an alternative to AndroidIt is the Google operating system that the company used in its smartphones, but it is no longer able to use it due to the gradual ban imposed by the United States on Chinese companies’ access to technologies that were developed in the United States.
In addition to the operating system, Huawei is working in other areas to eliminate all dependence on North American technology. That's why he also started developing his own LLM, as an alternative to ChatGPT, Gemini and others. It did the same in the hardware component, for data processing for AI, working on a parallel offering to that of companies like Nvidia.
At the conference, Huawei also showed off a new version of its generative AI model Pangu. This contains the new version of Huawei's LLM software, Pangu 5.0 Four variables, with training models of different sizes. Hey It can be integrated and played locally on smartphones. The medium sized model has 90 billion parametersand the second most advanced has 230 billion parameters There is also a fourth task, designed for more complex enterprise-level tasks, with… Billion parameters. In comparison, GPT-4 has 1.76 billion parameters (variables are modified during the training process).
As the company showed Harmony Intelligence infrastructure that will support different services with artificial intelligence in your devicessuch as the voice assistant Celia, in addition to humanoid robots and intelligent solutions for industry.
Recent data from Counterpoint confirms that HarmonyOS is growing all over the world, especially in Chinawhere It outperformed Apple's operating system But not only. Although it's just a marginal share, Harmony OS has more than doubled globally from 2% to 4% in the first three months of the year. In contrast, Android and iOS lost a 1% share, registering 77% and 19%, respectively. In China, Huawei's operating system already represents 17% of the market.
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