(Yicai Global) July 18 -- Huawei Technologies and Chinese coal mining giant Shandong Energy Group have begun using the tech giant's Pangu artificial intelligence model commercially in coal mining for the first time.

Huawei, Shandong Energy, and its unit Yunding Technology have jointly developed the first 21 scenarios for the use of the Pangu Mining AI Model, including mining, tunneling, transportation, and coking, the pair said at a press briefing today. It is being used in the coal mines of Shandong Energy's two subsidiaries, they added.

The integration of AI and the mining industry requires cooperation in the entire industry chain, said Zou Zhilei, senior vice president of Huawei and chairman of Huawei Coal Mine Team. The sector must set standards for AI mining models as soon as possible, Zou added.

The Pangu Mining AI Model has a two-tier architecture of central and edge cloud, which ensures data security and requires a small amount of sample data, has good versatility, and supports large-scale replication.

Huawei began developing AI models in 2020 and unveiled the Pangu Mining AI Model a year later before releasing the Pangu Model 3.0 on July 7. Unlike OpenAI's ChatGPT, Pangu 3.0 aims to serve industry and is designed based on an industry’s needs, according to Zhang Ping'an, chief executive of Huawei Cloud.

Editor: Martin Kadiev