With the application of large models, the development of AI has entered the 2.0 era. During this phase, intelligent computing cloud services are rapidly evolving, becoming the core driving force of the new generation of AI development, demonstrating boundless potential. A report by the well-known research institution IDC titled 'China Intelligent Computing Service Market (First Half of 2024) Tracking' indicates that in the first half of 2024, China's overall intelligent computing service market grew by 79.6% year-on-year, reaching a market size of 14.61 billion RMB. According to IDC's forecast, the compound annual growth rate of China's intelligent computing service market from 2023 to 2028 will reach 56.2%. This reflects the immense potential of China's intelligent computing service market.

At the Kingsoft Cloud annual Tech Talk held on January 7, 2025, Liu Tao, Senior Vice President of Kingsoft Cloud, stated that Kingsoft Cloud has fully upgraded its intelligent computing service system to support the landing of large model applications. Sun Xiao, Assistant Vice President of Kingsoft Cloud and head of the Public Cloud Product R&D Center, and Xu Yinfai, Assistant Vice President of Kingsoft Cloud and head of the AI Product R&D Center, respectively introduced the product and technical evolution and practical applications of Kingsoft Cloud in intelligent computing cloud and industry models.

Resonating with AI, intelligent computing cloud is evolving towards platformization and Serverless.

By gaining insights into the trends of intelligent computing cloud, Kingsoft Cloud (KC.US) has built the intelligent computing cloud 1.0 capability system around basic cloud, intelligent computing network, and intelligent computing platform, and is advancing towards intelligent computing cloud 2.0 which focuses on platformization and Serverless. In terms of basic cloud, the company has integrated software and hardware capabilities, comprehensively upgrading computing, storage, and networking to build high-performance infrastructure, laying a solid foundation for the development of intelligent computing cloud.

In the development process of large AI models, the intelligent computing network has become key to the effective functioning of the new type of infrastructure in the intelligent computing era. Regarding the optimization of the intelligent computing network, Kingsoft Cloud not only provides various networking architectures but also offers an in-house developed RoCE network monitoring platform that provides operational staff with a comprehensive and intuitive network view, helping them allocate and utilize resources more rationally through the computing power platform while enhancing the convenience of customer use and the continuity of their businesses.

Faced with the challenges presented by large model clients at the data level, Kingsoft Cloud has focused on the customers' need for elasticity, flexibility, and ease of use, integrating capabilities including Cloud Servers, cloud networks, containers, and high-performance object storage. It has developed and released several Serverless data products, including Serverless Spark. Among these, Serverless Spark has performed particularly well in the data cleaning scenarios of AIGC clients, successfully implemented in many leading general AI companies and received recognition.

Generative AI technology continues to mature, and application scenarios are continuously expanding. Kingsoft Cloud will focus on the overall capability construction of the intelligent computing platform around data platforms, training platforms, reasoning platforms, and storage platforms, providing a user-friendly and stable platform for large model clients throughout the complete lifecycle, ensuring sustained running time and performance.

Synchronizing with clients to assist intelligent transformation using industry models.

The year 2024 is referred to as the "first year of large model application landing" and the "first year of industry large model development." The "Research Report on the Competitiveness of China's Industry Large Models (2024)" released by CCID shows that by combining industry knowledge and intelligent technology, industry large models can provide customized solutions for specific fields, effectively addressing the limitations of general large models in industry applications.

To meet the digital transformation needs of vertical field clients, Kingsoft Cloud centers on the light boat industry large model, constructing the full-stack capability from platform, model to application, assisting legal, government, finance, and other industry clients in achieving intelligent transformation.

In terms of model capability, Kingsoft Cloud released the qzhou series 13B/32B/70B multi-size industry base models. Among them, the Kingsoft Cloud light boat industry large model not only achieves advanced level in the two authoritative standard evaluation sets of CEval and CMMLU, as well as in mathematical ability, coding ability, instruction adherence, and reasoning ability, but also the qzhou-law model, fine-tuned based on high-quality legal industry data, surpasses industry standards in various indicators on the lawbench standard evaluation set. Based on the light boat base model, Kingsoft Cloud has also launched models suitable for government, legal, and financial scenarios, which have been implemented to help clients achieve a dual increase in quality and efficiency.

In terms of platforms and applications, to meet the AI application development needs in different scenarios, Kingsoft Cloud released a one-stop Han Hai model development and application platform, covering multiple scenarios including intelligent dialogue and content creation, aiming to provide clients with stable and efficient large model training and application long-term, assisting them in efficiently building AI applications with zero-code/low-code, continuously lowering the application threshold for users of large models. This platform has been continuously delivered to government and enterprise, finance, and other industry clients. At the same time, the Kingsoft Cloud Han Hai training platform provides a stable, user-friendly, and high-performance deep learning training environment for clients with large-scale distributed training of large models. The Kingsoft Cloud light boat Xiaofa application designed for legal consulting and intelligent contract review has already served several leading law firms and enterprises.

In terms of application implementation, Kingsoft Cloud has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Xinyong Zhonghe Group in enterprise services. In this cooperation, Kingsoft Cloud will build a one-stop platform integrating large model training reasoning, application development, and long-term operational capability, creating a closed-loop capability driven by "Big Data + AI." At the same time, Kingsoft Cloud will also collaborate with domain experts from Xinyong Zhonghe, leverage expert knowledge and data, continuously iterating and optimizing the field large models, including in audit and compliance areas, and quickly building industry-specific AI native applications to empower various industries.

The wave of AI is surging forward, and the application of large models is continually taking shape, all of which bring unlimited imagination and unprecedented development opportunities for Cloud Computing. Kingsoft Cloud will continue to actively embrace AI, teaming up with ecosystem partners to achieve resilient development through increasingly enhanced product technology capabilities and continuously thickening service capabilities.