Digital Cooperation Organization Adopts Riyadh AI Declaration

Digital Cooperation Organization Secretary General, Deemah Al Yahya addresses the summit on Tuesday. (SPA)
Digital Cooperation Organization Secretary General, Deemah Al Yahya addresses the summit on Tuesday. (SPA)
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Digital Cooperation Organization Adopts Riyadh AI Declaration

Digital Cooperation Organization Secretary General, Deemah Al Yahya addresses the summit on Tuesday. (SPA)
Digital Cooperation Organization Secretary General, Deemah Al Yahya addresses the summit on Tuesday. (SPA)

Member states of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) agreed Tuesday to adopt the Riyadh AI Call for Action Declaration (RAICA), which seeks to use AI technology to benefit people, communities, nations, and the world.

The declaration, announced at Saudi Arabia’s Second Global AI Summit, was signed by all members of DCO including Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Jordan, Rwanda, and Saudi Arabia.

The summit, hosted under the patronage of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, kicked off on Tuesday and concludes on Thursday.

The call to action aims to advance the DCO’s commitment to identify and address present, emerging and future humanitarian issues in the field of AI.

The declaration highlights the different ways AI can be used as a tool to benefit the lives of millions of people around the world by improving the quality of work, developing better-designed public policies and nurturing efficiencies into the ecosystem.

“DCO was created with the ethos of establishing an inclusive digital economy through collaboration across diverse entities at all levels,” said Deemah Al Yahya, secretary general of DCO.

“The RAICA declaration is this idea put into practice. By signing this declaration all DCO member states are reaffirming their shared desire to usher in a brighter future for all by harnessing the huge potential of AI to improve the lives of people around the world,” added Al Yahya.

The declaration highlights seven key pillars that will help to bring this future into reality. Each is composed of principles that seek to address methods to ensure that benefits of AI are enjoyed by all while harming none.

The DCO has developed a series of action areas to help the seven pillars to be implemented.

In other news, Saudi Arabia’s Mozn, a market leader in enterprise AI technologies, participated on Tuesday as a “Technology Partner” at the AI Summit.

Mozn announced that it was building the world’s largest and most effective Arabic NLU models and demonstrated its advanced software technology applications and use cases.

Mozn introduced delegates to OSOS, its leading-edge natural-language understanding (NLU) technology.



Huawei Shows off AI Computing System to Rival Nvidia’s Top Product

An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. (Reuters)
An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. (Reuters)
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Huawei Shows off AI Computing System to Rival Nvidia’s Top Product

An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. (Reuters)
An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. (Reuters)

China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that one industry expert has said rivals Nvidia's most advanced offering, as the Chinese technology giant seeks to capture market share in the country's growing artificial intelligence sector.

The CloudMatrix 384 system made its first public debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), a three-day event in Shanghai where companies showcase their latest AI innovations, drawing a large crowd to the company's booth.

The system has drawn close attention from the global AI community since Huawei first announced it in April. Industry analysts view it as a direct competitor to Nvidia's GB200 NVL72, the US chipmaker's most advanced system-level product currently available in the market.

Dylan Patel, founder of semiconductor research group SemiAnalysis, said in an April article that Huawei now had AI system capabilities that could beat Nvidia.

Huawei staff at its WAIC booth declined to comment when asked to introduce the CloudMatrix 384 system. A spokesperson for Huawei did not respond to questions.

Huawei has become widely regarded as China's most promising domestic supplier of chips essential for AI development, even though the company faces US export restrictions.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in May that Huawei had been "moving quite fast" and named the CloudMatrix as an example.

The CloudMatrix 384 incorporates 384 of Huawei's latest 910C chips and outperforms Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 on some metrics, which uses 72 B200 chips, according to SemiAnalysis.

The performance stems from Huawei's system design capabilities, which compensate for weaker individual chip performance through the use of more chips and system-level innovations, SemiAnalysis said.

Huawei says the system uses "supernode" architecture that allows the chips to interconnect at super-high speeds and in June, Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan said the CloudMatrix 384 system was operational on Huawei's cloud platform.