Most businesses do not fully understand the current benefits that AI systems can bring to a company.
With Huawei’s latest play for the space, that might be about to change. Just like most of our other pieces in which we attempted to go beyond the buzzwords to understand the facts around major AI developments, Huawei is attempting to drive a similar sort of improvement in understanding.
In collaboration with software development teams, existing partners, universities, and other technologically forward organizations, Huawei hopes to engender a better level of AI talent for the future, through what they call their “AI Developer Enablement Program.” The details of said program are interesting, to say the least.
Reportedly, for software development teams, this means that Huawei will foot the bill for several training programs and events with the aim of helping said teams truly be “AI ready.” Included in this are: 20 hours of introductory material related to working on such a team in the AI space, some sort of three week camp which aims to educate development teams on shifting to the AI space, contests for AI developers which appear to be akin to Hackathons, and something called an “innovation incubation camp.”
Judging by our primary source on the subject, it appears that the most important of these offerings is the innovation incubation camp. This camp seems to represent Huawei’s attempt to teach non-AI companies to develop AI solutions and then turn them into actual, viable products for businesses to use both externally and internally, at scale. In short, it is less a camp and more an incubator similar to the multitude of such companies that exist in Silicon Valley. Instead of incubating startups, however, it may be said that Huawei hopes to incubate any efforts of existing companies to shift to AI focused approaches to doing business.
While being aware that we have raised these next questions before, their importance cannot be overstated. How is all of this possible and what value does all of this actually bring to a participating company?
In a general sense, it all comes down to new funding and new, easily accessible educational resources, including AI industry mentors.
For our deeper analysis on the subject, keep your finger on the pulse.
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Primary Source: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/huawei-plans-invest-140-million-ai-talent-education-89931
