Lei Feng. com reported on April 11 that Baidu Smart Yunfeng Club opened today. Since Baidu announced the organizational restructuring at the end of 2018 and announced for the first time in early 2019 that the single-quarter revenue of cloud business exceeded 1 billion, the trend of Baidu Cloud has always attracted attention. At today’s conference, there was no Zhang Yaqin-style opening speech (Zhang Yaqin announced that he would retire in October this year), but both Yin Shiming, vice president of Baidu, and Baidu AI Cloud executives were full of technical models and announced many new products.
Yin Shiming’s opening speech explains in detail the behind of Baidu Cloud upgrade.
In Yin Shiming’s speech, the two key words emphasized are "intelligence+"and "+intelligence".
Yin Shiming said that Baidu put forward ABC’s strategy in 2016, and it hasn’t changed much until today, but there is an upgrade of the version (currently version 3.0). Baidu has always insisted that intelligence, data and traditional cloud computing should be trinity, but intelligence should be the core, and products and services of any industry will be transformed into intelligence.
Baidu Cloud was upgraded from Business Group (BU) to Business Group (BG) not only because it was renamed once, but because "intelligence is the DNA of Baidu Cloud", which carries Baidu AI TO B and cloud services. The cloud in the intelligent age has infinite possibilities for computing, which means that the computing power has no boundaries, the algorithm will be everywhere, and the data will be productive around the algorithm. Baidu will lead the "qualitative change" to "intellectual change" of AI thinking.
"ABC3.0 is not limited to+intelligence, not just intelligence+. Nowadays, CTOs in various industries should think about whether the business is opened in the intelligent age. "
Yin Shiming mentioned that the reason why Baidu’s ABC3.0 architecture doesn’t combine with blockchain and security slogans at will (the industry has ABCDE, etc.) is because blockchain is technology, while ABC is architecture. With this architecture, you can add any technology and do things at the platform level, including intelligent video platforms, but the architecture should be stable. Baidu has always believed that besides the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, video may become the fourth industry, and many technical directions in Baidu AI Cloud in the later period are also related to this.
In his view, ABC originated from the practice and judgment of the Internet, and it is the accumulation of search engine ideas. Now it is time to feed back the Internet. In the era of PC Internet, technical thinking was relatively heavy, and storage servers were born at that time; In the era of mobile internet, tool thinking is relatively heavy, and IaaS/PaaS are on the rise, but traditional giants will have some difficulties; In the era of intelligent Internet, ability and thinking are very important. ABC can add anything and bring new models. What Baidu provides is "ABC+ intelligence+",which implies that it can be both+intelligence and+intelligence.
"I believe this is a great era. When AI comes, we can use AI as a tool to improve our productivity. We can also say that it is a new form of intelligent Internet after PC Internet and mobile Internet. This needs us to think about it."
Xie Guangjun released new products and announced the price reduction of several cloud products.
Subsequently, Xie Guangjun, deputy general manager of Baidu AI Cloud, followed Yin Shiming to give a speech.
Xie Guangjun said, why is intelligence so hot today? It is not the rapid rise of AI capabilities, but the improvement of capabilities such as big data and cloud computing. Baidu cannot do without ABC. Today, Baidu’s ABC3.0 will also promote the transformation of Internet basic technologies.
What technology does Baidu AI Cloud have at present? This may be a place that the outside world is interested in. Xie Guangjun used a picture to answer this question.
The core message is:
At the AI level, there are 158 general capabilities, and there is the world’s number one data forecasting platform, which is known as the largest large-scale heterogeneous computing platform in China.
Big data level, 100,000-level machines, 3EB of data storage, and 100 P of data for millions of jobs per day.
In terms of cloud computing, 3 million CPU cores, 6EB storage capacity, PUE1.9, and the super-average level increased by 88%; Trillion web pages, tens of billions of video image data.
Then he recalled that in the Spring Festival Evening of 2019, Baidu AI Cloud withstood the red envelope test of China’s largest traffic, and experienced 20.8 billion activities, 100 times of traffic, 100,000 servers, 8 special clusters and 60 times of resources, which can be regarded as a comprehensive test of Baidu’s resources, but it is the technical accumulation of Baidu in the past 20 years that it can do this. To sum up, it is still the core of ABC.
Then, Xie Guangjun talked about Baidu’s existing capabilities and products to be released today from three perspectives: cloud computing, big data and AI.
At the level of cloud computing, he first announced the continuous launch of high-specification data centers, such as Baoding in North China, new AZ in Beijing in North China, new AZ in Suzhou in East China, new AZ in Guangzhou in South China, and Singapore in the near future.
Subsequently, the curtain of product release was officially opened, and more than a dozen new products were announced in one breath.
The first is to calculate new products. New generation cloud host release, high performance computing GPU release, container instance release, function computing upgrade.
Then, Xie Guangjun announced that Baidu AI Cloud fully supported IPv6.
Lei Feng. com noted that in the second half of 2018, Ali, Tencent and JD.COM have announced their full support for IPv6. What are the highlights of Baidu’s announcement? According to Xie Guangjun, Baidu provides dual-stack access capability, supports dual-stack VPC inside and outside, or an internal network from IPv4 to IPv6, and is the first instance of IPv6 BLB supporting IPv6 load balancing capability in the industry.
Subsequently, the new network products also have some feature upgrades. For example, releasing local DNS products; Flexible network card product release, service network card release, users can build multi-available services; In addition, the flexibility of the network has been enhanced, and EIP can temporarily upgrade and release bandwidth packets, which can save customers’ costs.
In terms of storage, Xie Guangjun used the word "heavy" to announce the advent of a new storage BTS.
Technically, BTS has multi-stage compression technology, with IO consumption decreasing by more than 40% compared with Hbase, parallel lock-free data structure, multi-thread throughput and writing performance improving by more than 50%. In particular, Schema Free is convenient to support millions of cases of single linear expansion to PB level; Ten million TPS.
In terms of database, a new product CRDB was released, which further improved the reading and writing ability, and realized TP-AP mixed load in NewSQL ability, with a maximum of 1 million QPS；; Transparency is achieved in fault migration, and node failure is said to be "second-level recovery". Xie Guangjun emphasized that CRDB is the core of Baidu’s search engine, and Baidu’s web database is to store data on this system.
Followed by the release of new safety products. In addition to the general capabilities of login management and asset monitoring, Xie Guangjun announced the addition of a new product (key management service) and a new feature (host security HOSTEYE). Among them, Baidu adopts distributed architecture and national secret standard in key management, which has high security and high availability, and has perfect SDK support, so users can manage and use keys independently. Host security HOSTEYE can detect and kill malicious processes such as mining.
Subsequently, two products related to audio and video were released one after another.
CDN dynamically accelerates the release of new products, with 30% requesting speed increase. Lei Feng net note: Baidu network disk is an application with high upload speed, and this technology can solve this kind of problem. The characteristic of the new product is to realize one-way acceleration to the nearest access network.
Real-time audio and video communication RTC product release has 1080P video call experience, 20% anti-packet loss rate, 99% connectivity rate, and a lot of AI capabilities integration, which is currently used in interactive live broadcast, online education classroom and video conference fields.
When Xie Guangjun finished introducing the ability of computing, a long picture showing the ability of big data suddenly appeared on the big screen.
Xie Guangjun said that in big data, Baidu has three goals:
Openness: continue to contribute core technologies to the open source community;
Easy to use: 20+ product system, perfect data processing system;
Security: authentication, security isolation, data encryption and desensitization, etc.
He also announced that Palo, a multi-warehouse product, has entered apache incubator. At present, many domestic manufacturers are using Baidu’s multi-warehouse solution, such as Meituan, Chain Home, Sohu and Xiaomi. This warehouse has deployed more than 1,000 machines, more than 200 application services, and the largest single online business volume reaches 500TB.
In streaming computing, BSC product release can be applied to real-time log analysis, real-time monitoring, real-time personalized recommendation and IoT deployment, and can be completely hosted, so users do not need to pay attention to and manage infrastructure details. In addition, he also announced the release of Pingo, a data factory, which is a highly integrated platform for data development, analysis and mining. It can complete the development of big data in one stop, which may be sought after by developers.
As the highlight of Baidu technology, AI capabilities have always been used for the finale release.
Xie Guangjun showed the picture of Baidu Brain 3.0, indicating that 158 abilities such as deep learning, dialogue search and natural language processing have been achieved. Its carriers are also diverse, including model standard platform, customized training platform and ABC all-in-one machine.
In terms of intelligent speech ability, it has high-precision speech recognition, awakening, intention understanding and smooth speech synthesis ability.
In face technology, there are comprehensive face algorithms and live detection, and perfect face products have been created, such as offline SDK, face integrated machine, PaaS API and intelligent hardware.
Subsequently, Xie Guangjun announced the price reduction information of several products, which was close to the price "waist cut". It mainly includes cloud server BCC (up to 50%), cloud disk CDS (up to 50%), object storage BOS (up to 13%), and live audio and video LSS (up to 50%).
On top of ABC’s core architecture, Baidu released the first open source edge computing platform in China, which became one of the top ten events in the field of Internet of Things in 2018 and won wide acclaim on GitHub. Open Edge builds a new edge computing framework by using Baidu’s technology accumulation, and implants strong computing power on edge devices. In addition, Baidu ABC has some combination with new 5G technologies, and is currently cooperating with China Mobile.
At the end of the speech, Li Xu, general manager of Baidu AI Cloud Video Intelligence, and Xie Danming, vice president of iQiyi, came to the stage to release the intelligent video platform. As shown in the figure.
Summary of Leifeng. com
When Baidu proposed ABC strategy in 2016, it was still a weak voice. Today, ABC has become a recognized theme in the industry. From PC Internet to mobile Internet to today’s smart Internet, the ambition of this search giant has been expanding.
"Overlapping innovation" and "thinking change" may be the most prominent labels of Baidu now.
When the internet traffic is no longer growing, Baidu must think about how to switch users. Obviously, Baidu Cloud is the leading weapon, bearing the ambition of AI to B.
Since Baidu Cloud’s DNA is intelligent, in the next 20 years, Baidu will also develop into the position and role of the intelligent core hub of the Internet. Only in the current competition on the cloud, although Baidu Cloud has become the fastest player in the industry with a revenue of over 1 billion in a single quarter, it still has a lot of work to do.
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