On October 19th, Caixin News Agency reported that one of the world's largest technology exhibitions, GITEX GLOBAL, which lasted for five days, came to an end this Friday.
This year's GITEX GLOBAL has reached a historic high in scale, attracting over 6500 exhibitors, 1800 startups, 1200 investors, and government participation from more than 180 countries. Caixin reporters visited this technology event on site and experienced the latest technological achievements of numerous tech giants.
According to Fortune Business Insights, the global artificial intelligence market is expected to reach $621 billion by 2024 and soar to $2.7 trillion by 2032. Given its enormous influence, this year's GITEX Global 2024 theme is "Global Cooperation, Building the Future Artificial Intelligence Economy", with numerous star companies attending to showcase their latest applications and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology.
Famous exhibitors at this exhibition include Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dell, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and Salesforce, among others. Chinese tech giants such as Huawei, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, iFlytek, and Dahua Corporation also shone brightly. In addition, we also saw the presence of UAE AI company G42 and felt the UAE's increasingly prominent position in the AI market.
At the GITEX Global exhibition in Dubai, we will double our global cooperation and close contacts among all participants through major initiatives in the technology industry... The international participation in GITEX Global 2024 has surged by nearly 40%, reflecting the unstoppable digital ambitions of many countries that are now confidently entering the future global artificial intelligence economy through GITEX, "said Trixie LohMirmand, Executive Vice President of DWTC and organizer of GITEX Global and Expand North Star exhibitions.
Oracle (Oracle)
Oracle showcased its comprehensive AI solution portfolio at GITEX, including next-generation cloud applications based on state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure and state-of-the-art generative AI innovation. Oracle has specially designed a series of AI interactive cabins for visitors to experience various functions empowered by AI, such as finance, healthcare, human resources, and customer experience.
This year, at GITEX, we celebrate 35 years of supporting the UAE's growth ambitions through state-of-the-art on premises cloud infrastructure, the latest cloud technologies, nurturing top talent, and expanding our local business, "said Nick Redshaw, Senior Vice President of Technology Cloud for Oracle Middle East and Africa,
The leadership of the United Arab Emirates has put forward an inspiring vision in the era of artificial intelligence, and we are once again ready to support the country's aspirations through Oracle's powerful AI innovation. At GITEX GLOBAL 2024, our customers, partners, and visitors will experience enterprise level AI solutions and innovative multi cloud solutions to drive unprecedented innovation and achieve seamless cloud interoperability
Microsoft
Microsoft announced its AI National Skills Program at GITEX GLOBAL, aiming to enhance the AI skills of 100000 government employees in the UAE next year. The plan has reached agreements with the governments of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah, aiming to make the UAE one of the most fully prepared AI governments in the world.
According to the latest research commissioned by IDC by the software giant, Microsoft and its partners, as well as customers utilizing cloud technology, are expected to generate $74.4 billion in new revenue for the UAE economy over the next four years.
AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) highlighted AWS Bedrock at the exhibition, a comprehensive generative AI service that enables customers to access basic models (FMs) from leading AI companies using a single API. These models are pre trained and can be applied to various core purposes, from search to content creation to drug discovery. Enable enterprises to easily build, customize, and deploy generative AI applications through these foundational models.
In addition, Emirates Telecom has signed an agreement worth over $1 billion with AWS to accelerate the adoption of cloud solutions and drive digital transformation in the region.
Huawei
The Huawei exhibition area at the GITEX GLOBAL exhibition exceeded 1400 square meters, which was very eye-catching.
Based on the industry intelligence reference architecture, it comprehensively demonstrates the deep integration of digital technology with various industries, as well as rich global industry digital innovation practices.
In the exhibition area of "Accelerating Digital Intelligence in the Industry", Huawei demonstrated its successful practices and scenario based solutions in public utilities, government affairs, finance, transportation, power, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, ISP and Internet, education, medical care and other industries, and showed its partners the latest partner policies and tool support.
In the "Innovative Digital Infrastructure" exhibition area, Huawei comprehensively showcased its products and product portfolio in the fields of data communication, all-optical networks, data storage, smart parks, data centers, Huawei Cloud, etc., to meet the needs of customers in different stages of digital transformation.
Huawei's Senior Vice President and Enterprise Sales President, Chen Lei, delivered a keynote speech at the summit, saying, "Through this summit, we gather in Dubai with customers and partners from various industries around the world to explore the future of digitalization in the industry. It is appropriate and timely - in terms of location, Dubai is an innovative city that showcases the courage and creativity inherent in the human spirit; in terms of timing, we are experiencing a productivity revolution driven by the latest technological innovations and the vast prospects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
IFlytek, University of Science and Technology
At this exhibition, the iFlytek booth also attracted the attention of journalists. IFLYTEK held a press conference with the theme of "The Road to AI Future", which focused on three blockbuster products: smart space solutions, iFLYTEK simultaneous interpreting and iFLYTEK translator.
According to the staff, iFLYTEK simultaneous interpreting supports real-time translation in nine languages, which is very suitable for enterprises, conferences and large-scale events in the multicultural background of the Middle East. The iFlytek translator is a product designed specifically for individual users, which can meet their daily cross language communication needs and build an accessible communication bridge for users.
The reporter also saw a transparent translation screen product at the iFlytek booth. According to the reporter's personal experience, when two users of different languages stand on both sides of the screen and have a conversation, the conversation records of the two users' languages will be displayed on each side of the screen, providing a smooth conversation experience for the two users. According to the staff, this product is mainly used in scenarios such as service windows, aiming to improve the quality of customer service.
According to the staff, this product also supports Arabic. During the exhibition, many Arabic speaking customers showed strong interest in it and experienced it firsthand. The product performed well when facing users with different accents.
The reporter also saw the robot development platform of iFlytek at its booth. According to the staff, iFlytek provides this platform for robot developers to use for robot development. The platform system is equipped with a speech recognition module for voice dialogue, and its processor can be connected to large models and search engines to process input problems and provide feedback.
IFlytek also showcased two use cases for its AI robot development platform, one for product promotion and market feedback collection in stores, and one for home entertainment.
Dahua Corporation
One of the highlights of this year's Dahua booth is its 8K LED and holographic display screen, which adopts advanced onboard chip (CoB) technology. These displays have excellent brightness, clarity, and color accuracy, making them perfect for creating highly immersive and engaging experiences. According to the staff, the display screen can be applied to concerts, large-scale events, and corporate offices, providing stunning clarity.
In addition, Dahua also showcased multiple operational solutions such as intelligent retail, intelligent education, and intelligent storage, helping businesses and institutions optimize operations and improve experiences.
For example, booth staff explained that smart retail can help users collect and analyze in store data, while its retail loss prevention solution combines artificial intelligence with traditional security systems to protect assets, detect theft, and provide comprehensive monitoring.
Dahua showcases its intelligent retail, intelligent education and other operational solutions
Soul APP
At the booth of the social platform Soul App, visitors can experience Soul's self-developed multimodal AI model. This model supports real-time motion capture, speech and text dialogue, multilingual communication, and realistic humanoid avatars. Through interactive displays, visitors can create their own 3D digital versions and engage in smooth, immersive interactions.
According to the staff, the dialogue and interaction with these digital avatars are not just one-time, but like real friends, they have memories and warmth. For example, if a digital avatar senses that a user has caught a cold, it may ask the user on the third day if they feel better, "creating a completely different emotional experience
In addition, Soul plans to introduce a new feature for digital twins that enables them to automatically interact with other users or their digital twins when they are offline. Through conversations with others through digital twins, users can determine for themselves whether they can become good friends and continue from there.
Acer
At the Acer booth, we saw Acer's new Swift AI Copilot+PC. This series of PCs is equipped with multiple processors, including Snapdragon& Reg; X Plus 8-core processor, AMD RyzenAI 300 series processor, and Intel& reg; Core processors (Series 2).
G42
Middle Eastern artificial intelligence giant G42 showcases at GITEX how the new concept of "Intelligence Grid" sets new standards for scalable AI solutions in key areas such as government, healthcare, and energy.
The company has established an ecosystem consisting of multiple companies, each focusing on various fields of artificial intelligence and technology. Four of these companies made individual appearances at this year's GITEX:
Space42 combines satellite communication and geospatial analysis with artificial intelligence; Core42， Provide sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure solutions; Presight， The leading data analytics company in the region, powered by generative artificial intelligence, showcased its enterprise solution suite; Khazna provides AI ready data center infrastructure as the backbone of the AI economy.
Other well-known exhibitors at this exhibition include Google Cloud, AMD, Dell, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, etc. The gathering of numerous global tech giants at this technology event highlights the importance of the GITEX exhibition as a platform to showcase the latest developments in artificial intelligence and promote international cooperation.