On September 27, the eSurfing Cloud China Tour was successfully held in Guizhou with the theme of "Forging  eSurfing Cloud Foundation and Taking Intelligent Computing as the Engine — Promoting Guizhou to Leap Forward in Digital Economy with AI Foundation Models". At the conference, the eSurfing Cloud computing innovation service and eSurfing Cloud government model WisGrace were released. The conference also witnessed the opening of the eSurfing Cloud Foundation Model Training Center of China Telecom and the initiation of the AI Model Application Promotion Action. Hu Zhiqiang, Secretary of the Communist Party Committee, Chairman of the Board, and General Manager of China Telecom Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. He shared the phased achievement of eSurfing Cloud in computing power, platform, and security, and the ideas and practices of building a prosperous foundation model ecosystem based on the cloud foundation. At the conference, Mr. Hu announced the release of eSurfing Cloud government model WisGrace.

Three Upgrades of eSurfing Cloud

Build a Powerful Cornerstone in the AI Era

The emergence of foundation models marks the transformation of the AI production paradigm and significantly boosts the efficiency of economic and social development. Along with the wider application of foundation models, more and more scenario-specific requirements are rising in vertical industries. In-depth customization of foundation model training and application in industries has become an important trend. However, the transition from general foundation models to industry-specific models faces great building difficulties, high technical thresholds, and many obstacles in security assurance.

To address the preceding challenges, Mr. Hu expressed that eSurfing Cloud, as a Chinese eSurfing cloud service team, would upgrade its intelligent computing capabilities in computing power, platform, and security to lay a solid foundation in the AI era and inject new vitality to the intelligent transformation of industries.

★ In terms of computing power, eSurfing Cloud scientifically plans and builds intelligent computing power based on the distribution of existing "2+4+31+X" computing power resources to realize collaborative deployment of heterogeneous computing power. The training computing power is centrally deployed in Western China such as Guizhou and Inner Mongolia where the deployment cost is low. Plus the cloud-network synergy advantages of China Telecom, eSurfing Cloud can efficiently meet customers' model training requirements. The inference computing power has been moved downwards to nodes in each city. Drawing on the edge equipment rooms of China Telecom spreading in the country, the inference computing power will be further deployed downwards on demand to provide customers with inference services that feature high bandwidth, low latency, and high security.

★ Talking about platforms, eSurfing Cloud has an integrated platform that integrates ultra-large-scale training clusters and inference clusters, which provide lifecycle services covering training data management, model training and fine-tuning, deployment, and inference. This platform promotes the standardization of model training, fine-tuning, and inference, lowering the threshold for generating and using large models. eSurfing Cloud provides a complete toolset for model training, deployment, and inference. The built-in mainstream open-source models and open-source datasets help users concentrate on data preparation and model training and evaluation.

★ The wide application of foundation models also causes a series of security risks. eSurfing Cloud attaches equal importance to development and security. Through a series of security protection measures and security detection methods related to platforms, data, and content, eSurfing Cloud continuously improves risk prevention and mitigation capabilities, provides a secure and reliable model training and deployment environment, and effectively prevents risks such as legal compliance, data and privacy protection, content tampering, and code attacks.

Release the Government Model

Build a New Paradigm of Intelligent Government Services

WisGrace, aiming to benefit people's livelihood, is the first industry model launched based on the top brand advantages of eSurfing Cloud in government services, relying on the newly upgraded intelligent computing base, and with the support of the government service scenarios and data support of Guiyang Municipal People's Government. WisGrace features extensive coverage of government knowledge, accurate understanding of business intents, efficient handling of government affairs, and reliable security mechanisms. It can provide professional, efficient, and personalized government services for citizens and government staff, facilitating the "Five Ones" Initiative.

With excellent intent understanding and diversified information interaction capabilities, WisGrace can be used in scenarios such as government consultation service and agent assistance. It can accurately and quickly propose the optimal handling process and basis to meet citizens' requirements, improving government service efficiency. Based on the multi-dimensional information association and summary capabilities of WisGrace, governments can quickly gain insights into hot events, analyze the implementation of preferential policies for enterprises, and learn about citizens' concerns and the effects of preferential policies for enterprises in a timely manner. All these support subsequent policy formulation, and further improve the social governance level. The logical reasoning and content generation capabilities of WisGrace can also help government staff summarize document abstracts and prepare for meetings more accurately and efficiently, significantly improving work efficiency and reducing workload.

Generated in and serving Guiyang, the WisGrace government model will be continuously iterated. As the basic government cloud capability of eSurfing Cloud, WisGrace has been deeply integrated into all scenarios of the digital government sector, helping build a new paradigm for intelligent government services and improving the intelligence level of government services.

Open for Shared Success

Build a Prosperous  eSurfing Cloud Model Innovation Ecosystem

One single tree does not make a forest. The core concept of eSurfing Cloud model ecosystem is to become a leading provider of intelligent computing services based on foundation models in China by converging various general foundation models and industry models to form a prosperous foundation model innovation ecosystem based on the intelligent computing base and security advantages.

With robust intelligent computing power and an intelligent computing platform, eSurfing Cloud has provided multiple ecosystem modes for partners such as model developers, model providers, application vendors, competent authorities, research institutes, and industry associations. eSurfing Cloud has also cooperated with top AI partners such as Huawei, ZTE, SenseTime, YITU, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, ESurfing Supercomputing Center in Chengdu, and Paratera to jointly enable industry intelligence by exploring more in-depth cooperation models.

eSurfing Cloud also contributes to capability openness. It focuses on building the model market, developer community, application market, and other application capabilities. Relying on China Telecom's channel advantages towards governments, enterprises, families, and individual customers, eSurfing Cloud enables partners in computing power, technologies, and the market to help them improve the business value of AI products.

Enable Numerous Industries

Serve Guizhou's Digital Economy Development

Guizhou is an important computing power highland for the country to carry out the Eastern Data and Western Computing project and promote the Digital China Initiative. Deeply rooted in Guizhou, eSurfing Cloud has formed a "2+9+X" computing resource layout. Through multi-level downwards and hierarchical layout of computing power, eSurfing Cloud can offer different resource services for a wide range of customers in various industries in Guizhou. The computing power resources provided for customers are inclusive, ubiquitous, and secure.

To meet the explosive intelligent computing requirements in the foundation model era, eSurfing Cloud preferentially deploys the model training computing power in Guizhou and will gradually build a model training center here. At the Gui'an cluster hub in Guizhou, full-stack cloud products will be further deployed to support Eastern Data and Western Computing, Eastern Data and Western Storage, Eastern Data and Western Training, and cloud-edge synergy across regions relying on the high-speed network of China Telecom.

Based on the overall planning of the Eastern Data and Western Computing project in Guizhou, eSurfing Cloud has deployed a computing power scheduling platform Xirang to coordinate and schedule computing power resources, and improve the computing service capability and operation capability here. The Xirang Platform supports intelligent, efficient, and secure operations and scheduling in a unified way. This platform gradually guides the appropriate construction and application of supercomputing and intelligent computing centers to meet eSurfing and local major government application and scientific research requirements, helping Guizhou develop its digital economy.

With advantageous resources and platform capabilities, eSurfing Cloud proactively enables numerous industries in Guizhou to achieve digital and intelligent transformation in economy and society.

To upgrade education here, the Jinzhou Education Cloud Platform has been developed to transfer high-quality education resources to southwest Guizhou, promoting education development in remote and poor minority areas through informatization.

In the healthcare field, eSurfing Cloud helped Wudang District of Guiyang build a regional healthcare information service platform. This platform, like a powerful "brain", makes high-quality healthcare resources easier to access.

There are also typical cases of migrating to the cloud, using digital tools, and enabling intelligence in multiple industries, such as transportation, industry, and food.

In the future, eSurfing Cloud will further extend the reach of the Eastern Data and Western Computing project and support the digital economy development of Guizhou.

Against the backdrop of in-depth development of digital technologies and continuous improvements of AI, foundation models will show more significance in issue understanding and resolution. Driven by technological innovation and relying on the cloud platform, eSurfing Cloud will keep on building advanced intelligent computing productivity, and join hands with partners to enable digital and intelligent transformation of the economy and society in all aspects to boost the progress of the Digital China Initiative.