Zhang Jianfeng, president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Business Group and president of Alibaba DAMO Academy, today unveiled Wuying, Alibaba's first cloud computer, a supercomputer that grows in the cloud, at the 2020 Apsara Conference.
He said, "In the past, personal computers were called PCs, called personal computers, so today this is a cloud era computer, called a Cloud computer, we call it a CC computer.
This CC computer, through the back end of the cloud, has unlimited computing power.
With a single screen, it can do anything you're doing now on a computer.
It's even capable of doing things you can't do on a single traditional computer right now, like doing some very complex calculations, going to render a very large video, or going to do specialized work like graphic design or software development.
Users can simply connect a screen to a business card holder-sized C-Key to access a dedicated cloud computer desktop and access a variety of applications and files.
Users can expand their computing power in the cloud at any time for office communication, design and modeling, animation and rendering, and more.
In short, Wuying supports unlimited expansion, and single application resources can be flexibly scaled up to 104-core CPU and 1.5T memory to easily cope with high-performance computing needs.
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It supports on-demand performance at half the price of a traditional PC, and supports unlimited upgrades, so you don't need to replace it once every 3-5 years.
In contrast, the iterative upgrade of the PC, maybe two years, or three years to upgrade once.
In addition, keeping all your personal data in the cloud eliminates the need to spend time migrating it as well. It has a high level of security because it essentially doesn't have some external interface; all the data is stored in the cloud today.
It is precisely because the data is in the "cloud", fear of computer loss and even less fear of viruses, and enjoys the same level of security as the Alibaba Cloud data center.
In terms of system, traditional PCs have a single operating system, while Wuying Cloud PCs can seamlessly switch between cross-platform, cross-device, Windows/Linux applications.
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Today's Alibaba Cloud has also been upgraded to version 2.0, providing a mobile, data-driven, intelligent platform for application development.
The original cloud was like one on a DOS system. With a DOS system on a computer, you're developing a complex application interface, and that's a lot of skill to know.
Whereas the new digital native system is a Windows-like system, a windowed one, and the new application development becomes very simple.
Alibaba Cloud 2.0, is a combination of cloud + digital native operating system, the user does not need to understand the code, can have the ability to cloud, data, intelligent, mobile, IoT, so that the cloud becomes like water, electricity, and coal, and spread to more scenarios.
Zhang Jianfeng also said that China is expected to generate 1 billion delivery orders per day in the near future. However, end-to-end logistics is the most costly and least efficient part of the entire logistics system, and Alibaba Cloud has been thinking about how to solve this problem with technology.
Today, Alibaba Cloud released its first solution for logistics, the robot Xiaomanlv.
This robot is an end-to-end logistics solution from Alibaba DAMO Academy Autopilot Lab that solves the daily tasks of receiving goods and delivers a more convenient and intelligent experience.
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This "brute donkey" integrates DAMO Academy's cutting-edge artificial intelligence and autopilot technology, with human-like cognitive intelligence and a brain that reacts to emergencies up to seven times faster than humans. It will soon be used on a large scale in communities, schools, and office parks.
And it's so capable that it can run more than 100 kilometers on 4 degrees of electricity, deliver 500 deliveries a day, and is impervious to the elements compared to human couriers.
It can be as smart as a human-driven vehicle, recognizing the direction of objects automatically and planning routes flexibly even in dense crowds.
DAMO Academy's self-developed perception algorithm allows the robot to recognize centimeter-level obstacles, a high-precision positioning algorithm allows the robot to achieve centimeter-level positioning without GPS, and the intent prediction algorithm gives the robot superior intent recognition ability.
It uses only 0.01 seconds to discern the intentions of more than 100 pedestrians and vehicles, and the robot also has five safety designs such as brain decision making, cerebellum redundancy, and abnormality detection braking to ensure the highest safety performance.
Especially in community, school, and park scenarios, Xiaomanlv can achieve active avoidance, emergency braking, and remote guarding, and with such a safety system, Alibaba Cloud achieves an autopilot rate of 99.9999%.
The robot is technically supported by the DAMO Academy robotics platform, which integrates hardware and software, and this platform integrates components such as chassis, sensors, and embedded computing units to enable robot development in multiple scenarios.
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Alibaba's cloud gaming platform PaaS 1.0 was also unveiled today, with Alibaba Group Vice President Zhuang Zhuoran stating that cloud gaming will become a major scenario for personal consumption in the 5G era.
"What PaaS 1.0 is going to do is to set the stage for industry partners and deepen the infrastructure, underlying system software technology and application scenario technology for cloud gaming, integrate Alibaba's e-commerce, metals, services, content, and other Internet applications, and interface with cloud gaming as a new digital consumption scenario," He claimed.
Cloud gaming refers to the way that games run in the cloud, and after rendering the image is compressed and sent to users through the network, users will get rid of their dependence on hardware, thus bringing a new gaming experience and a new round of consumption upgrade.
After Google launched its cloud gaming platform Stadia last year, Microsoft's cloud gaming service has also recently launched.
The Alibaba Cloud Game PaaS 1.0 platform is a PaaS ("Platform-as-a-Service") platform for game developers, distribution channels, game engines, terminals, operators, and other partners.
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It also features "three highs" and "three lows" such as "high coverage, high stability, and high performance" and "low access threshold, low start-up cost and low usage cost". "Alibaba's technology and ecological advantages, combined with a number of incentives, will help partners launch cloud gaming businesses faster and at a lower cost.
According to Alibaba, the cloud gaming platform will also help promote the birth of more quality and original games.
In addition, yesterday afternoon, Alibaba announced the launch of a new business that has been secretly in development for 3 years, the big data platform "Xiniu Smart Factory", which is positioned at the center of new manufacturing intelligence.
Alibaba Cloud will first explore new manufacturing in the apparel industry, Xiniu smart factory is a digital intelligent manufacturing platform specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises, with extensive application of cloud computing, IoT, and artificial intelligence technologies, and 80% of its team are engineers.
This is the "Xiniu Smart Factory" that Alibaba Cloud has officially announced. In the past three years, many people in other divisions of Alibaba Cloud had no idea about this.
The market for manufacturing is huge, and we believe that the dividends of technology can bring about great change," said Wu Xugang, CEO of Xiniu, in a media interview. However, in front of such a large and long-settled industry, Alibaba Cloud New Manufacturing doesn't dare to talk about empowerment lightly, because empowerment is a very high stance, and we have to get down and deep into it to promote the digitization and intelligence of the industry.
The first shot fired by the Xiniu factory was in the apparel industry, so why did Alibaba Cloud's new manufacturing start in the apparel industry?
The apparel industry can be said to be a big slice of the pie that Alibaba Cloud has always had. From 14 to 18 years, the transaction amount of Alibaba Cloud can be seen that apparel and shoes have always held the first place.
Furthermore, most of the apparel industry on Taobao are small and medium-sized enterprises, the largest share of Taobao users, and supporting them is an important step in driving Alibaba Cloud to new manufacturing.
According to Alibaba Cloud, the goal of new manufacturing is to have the ability to "produce 2,000 pieces of the same product in 5 minutes to 2,000 pieces of different products in 5 minutes," enabling entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses to focus on their core competencies and driving small and medium-sized factories to achieve digital upgrades to improve the competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry.
The apparel industry has a market size of 3 trillion RMB and is a large industry. The reason for taking it as an entry point is that the apparel industry is also an industry with high inventory, which is influenced by fashion trends and has an extremely short product life cycle.
Xiniu Smart Factory has a clear mission: "We specialize in taking small orders, making custom orders on demand, starting with 100 pieces and delivering in 7 days.
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