Huawei Cloud, a Cloud services provider from China, has launched a new cloud region in north Africa, as it expands its footprint across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. The Cairo Cloud Region has become the company’s 33rd Cloud Region in the world, and covers a whopping 28 African nations!
“With the Cairo Region, we are bringing our most innovative technologies to the country to further support Egypt to unlock the potential of digital transformation,” said Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Services at Huawei Cloud. “Furthermore, the launch of the Cairo region is an important step in Huawei Cloud being able to enhance our services to customers across 28 African countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia and Algeria.”
According to Arizton Advisory & Intelligence, the Egypt Data Center market was valued at US$ 182 Million in 2023, and is expected to grow to US$ 513 Million by 2029. This is in line with the country’s goal of digital transformation as laid down in Egypt Vision 2030. The country already has access to as many as 17 submarine cables, placing it on the information superhighway connection the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Egypt has already attracted investments and interest from global players like Khazna Data Centers, Gulf Data Hub, and many others.
Huawei Cloud also released a new Arabic large language model (LLM), which is an important step in supporting companies in the region with the digital transformation of vertical industries. According to a press releases, the automatic speech recognition (ASR) service supports functions covering over 20 Arabic speaking countries, with accuracy rate reaching 96 percent. “It is the first 100-billion parameter Arabic LLM in the industry. The model has been trained with native Arabic data, ensuring an accurate understanding of the local culture, history, knowledge customs and more of the Arab world, rather than relying on a body of English work and translating,” said the company.
Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Services at Huawei Cloud elaborated, “We believe that every country should have AI capabilities to preserve its local culture and that AI models should be developed and trained with local languages, enabling vertical industries to become more efficient.”
