Huawei has always had its own exclusive Hongmeng system to assist Android, and this system has many unique and exclusive functions for users to experience. Recently there is news that Hongmeng 4 will be connected to a large AI model. What’s going on? , let us take a look at the large AI model that Hongmeng 4 will be connected to.
Since 2023, large models have become the hottest topic in the technology and industry circles. After OpenAI released the public beta version of ChatGPT, a number of technology companies such as Huawei, Baidu, Alibaba, and iFlytek have also announced their own large model technology routes, trying to find the application of large models in actual industries.
According to current official news, Huawei is about to release Hongmeng 4.0 during HDC (Huawei Developer Conference 2023), and has completed pushing the Beta version to some developers.
According to feedback from Weibo users, the first batch of models supporting Hongmeng 4.0 developer beta include eight models including Huawei P60, P60 Pro, Mate 50, and MatePad Pro 11-inch performance version. At the same time, the details of the status bar of Huawei Hongmeng 4.0 Developer Beta version have changed significantly, and the position of the icons is more relaxed and comfortable. From left to right are time/App notifications, alarm clock/NFC (system), signal/battery, which has been changed from the left and right layout of Hongmeng 3.1 to a three-stage layout.
In addition to changes in the appearance of the system, Hongmeng 4 also has new progress in technology.
On August 2, Huawei Device BG CEO Yu Chengdong posted a Weibo video showing that Hongmeng 4.0 Xiaoyi has certain AI content generation capabilities. In the video, Yu Chengdong asked Xiaoyi to write an invitation copy about Huawei HDC. Xiaoyi then automatically completed the copywriting based on its natural language understanding ability. Judging from Xiaoyi's functional upgrade, it means that Xiaoyi may have access to large model capabilities.
On July 7, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2023 (Cloud), Huawei Managing Director and Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan announced the launch of Pangu Large Model 3.0, which covers three levels: general large model, industry large model and scene model L0~L2. The industry provides large model services.
Pangu 3.0 provides a series of basic large models with 10 billion parameters, 38 billion parameters, 71 billion parameters and 100 billion parameters. The pre-training data contains more than 3 trillion tokens and launches knowledge question and answer, copywriting generation and code for NLP large models. Generation, as well as a new set of capabilities such as image generation and image understanding of multi-modal large models.
Previously, Microsoft and Google had announced that they would introduce AI assistant and large model technology to Windows and Android systems. If Huawei Hongmeng completes the installation of large models this time, it may become the first system with built-in AI large models. At the same time, this also means that the large model capabilities released by Huawei have been applied on mobile terminals for the first time. With the help of large models, the underlying system is upgraded, and various terminals, including Huawei mobile phones, will achieve a smoother and richer interactive experience.
Take Huawei's smart assistant Xiaoyi as an example. With a large model as the underlying support, Xiaoyi will become an exclusive AI for end users, enabling a richer interactive experience than ever before. At the same time, based on the user's habits of using mobile phones, AI can also conduct independent analysis to further enhance the user experience. The different computing power deployments on the device side and the cloud side can also be appropriately allocated based on different tasks to balance computing power consumption and battery life.
In addition to meeting the needs of mobile phone users, Huawei's in-vehicle system may also be equipped with new functions. Yu Chengdong previously stated on Weibo that the smart cockpit system equipped with Hongmeng 4.0 will be released this fall, which can realize the experience of multiple people, multiple devices, multiple screens and multiple sound zones. Specific functions include multi-screen cross-device screen projection, multi-screen multi-channel two-way flow, in-cabin eye position tracking and eye status recognition, etc.
Public data shows that since the release of HarmonyOS in 2019, the number of Huawei devices equipped with HarmonyOS has reached 330 million, and Harmony has become the third largest mobile operating system. In addition, the latest data from IDC also shows that in the second quarter of 2023, Huawei returned to China's top five smartphone manufacturers after many years, with Huawei's market share increasing by 76.1% year-on-year.