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Huawei first hyperscaler to launch public cloud in Egypt with its Cairo Region
Huawei Cloud announced its Cairo Region , making Huawei the first company to launch a public cloud in Egypt . The Cairo Region covers 28 African countries and contributes to Huawei Cloud ’ s support of digital transformation of vertical industries . Announced at the Huawei Cloud Summit in Cairo , the announcement of the Cairo Region brings Huawei Cloud ’ s total number of regions to 33 worldwide .
The Cairo Region will provide innovative , reliable , secure , and flexible cloud services to individuals , corporate and government users and serve as important digital infrastructure . Huawei Cloud has been offering innovative services on its platform including the DataArts data governance pipeline including the GaussDB database , and the ModelArts AI development pipeline .
“ With the Cairo Region , we are bringing our most innovative technologies to the country to further support Egypt to unlock the potential of digital transformation ,” said Jacqueline Shi , President of Global Marketing and Sales Services at Huawei Cloud .
“ Furthermore , the launch of the Cairo Region is an important step in Huawei Cloud being able to enhance our services to customers across 28 African countries such as Egypt , Ethiopia and Algeria .”
Jacqueline Shi , President of Global Marketing and Sales Services , Huawei Cloud
data , ensuring an accurate understanding of the local culture , history , knowledge customs and more of the Arab world , rather than relying on a body of English work and translating .
As an important part of Huawei Cloud ’ s Pangu model ’ s endeavour to support vertical industries with AI capabilities , the training of the model is based on industry datasets covering digital power , oil and gas , finance and more .
Shi continued : “ We believe that every country should have AI capabilities to preserve its local culture and that AI models should be developed and trained with local languages , enabling vertical industries to become more efficient .”
Huawei previously announced that it will invest US $ 300 million to establish the first public cloud region in Egypt , offering over 200 cloud services including AI platforms , data platforms , and development platforms . To nurture a thriving ecosystem , Huawei will invest US $ 200 million to support 200 local software partners , to empower 1,300 channel partners and eventually to build a prosperous local software and application ecosystem .
Huawei Cloud is the second largest cloud services provider in China , according to research firm Canalys . It has been steadily expanding its global footprint , opening new data centres in Türkiye and Saudi Arabia last year and operating a total of 93 availability zones over 33 regions globally .
Huawei Egypt was founded in 2000 . Huawei is committed to collaborating with over 350 local partners and enriching the local ecosystem . In terms of supporting ICT talent , the company has set up 90 ICT academies , a flagship Seeds for the Future programme , and ICT competition . These talent programmes have benefited over 35,000 Egyptian ICT talent . p
Huawei Cloud also released a new Arabic large language model , LLM . The new Arabic LLM is an important step in supporting companies in the region with the digital transformation of vertical industries . The automatic speech recognition , ASR service supports functions covering over 20 Arabic speaking countries , with accuracy rate reaching 96 %. It is the first 100-billion parameter Arabic LLM in the industry . The model has been trained with native Arabic
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