Huawei rolled out a bevy of announcements at its Huawei Connect conference this week including a $1.5 billion investment in its developer program, 43 new artificial intelligence (AI) cloud services, and a series of new processors.

The Chinese vendor is reinvigorating its developer program, first established in 2015, with $1.5 billion spread over the next five years to build what it describes as an open computing industry ecosystem based on its Kunpeng and Ascend processors. Huawei claims 1.3 million individual developers and more than 14,000 enterprise developers are now registered in the program.

Patrick Zhang, CTO of Huawei’s cloud and AI products, said the Huawei Developer Program 2.0 will also promote the continued development of industry standards, demonstration sites, and a technical certification system. The vendor also intends to share the computing power of its Kunpeng and Ascend processors to accelerate their use in the developer community.

Huawei also released 43 AI cloud services based on its Ascend processors including the Atlas 900 AI cluster, Atlas 300 AI training card, and the Atlas 800 AI training server. The services are designed for scenarios such as AI data inference, data training, image processing, knowledge computing, and autonomous driving training, according to the vendor.

“We’re in the golden age of computing architecture. Abundant, high-performance, diversified, greener, and inclusive computing power will drive the development of an intelligent society,” said Hou Jinlong, president of Huawei’s cloud and AI products, in a statement. “Our goal is to innovate to customer demand and provide computing power for ubiquitous cloud and pervasive intelligence.”

Huawei claims petroleum industry firms have become at least 70% more efficient by using its AI cloud technology, and because its clusters can “process petabytes of data in real time,” autonomous driving development has gained a five-fold gain in efficiency.

The Ascend AI processors, paired with Atlas servers, now cover cloud, edge, and devices to increase computing power for training and inference, Huawei said at its event. Atlas 900 is a scalable cluster with thousands of Ascend 910 processors, and the Atlas 800 integrates eight Ascend 910 AI processors to achieve two petaflops of computing power with a density 2.5 times greater than the competition, according to Huawei. The Atlas 300 AI training card provides 256 teraflops of computing power.

The Ascend processors are part of Huawei’s push to enrich its Kunpeng platform with a full-stack infrastructure spanning across PCs, servers, storage, operating systems, middleware, virtualization, databases, cloud services, and applications. The company also said its open source openEuler server operating system will be commercially available by the end of 2020.

“The future of computing is a massive market worth more than $2 trillion,” said Ken Hu, deputy chairman at Huawei, in a statement. “We’ll keep investing with a strategy that focuses on four key areas. We will push the boundaries of architecture, invest in processors for all scenarios, keep clear business boundaries, and build an open ecosystem.”

Huawei anticipates statistical computing will become mainstream during the next five years and predicts AI computing will account for more than 80% of all computing power used around the world by 2024.

During his keynote at the event, Hu also explained Huawei’s efforts to bridge the digital divide by focusing on healthcare, education, development, and the environment. “Technology shouldn’t sit in an ivory tower. Instead it should benefit all humanity,” he said. “We firmly believe that digital technology will benefit every person, home, and organization.”