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Tencent’s Weixin Integrates Ray for Large-Scale AI Deployment
In a recent breakthrough, Tencent’s popular messaging app, Weixin, has officially integrated Ray, an open-source distributed computing engine, to tackle the challenges of deploying large-scale AI systems efficiently and cost-effectively. This strategic move aims to revolutionize the app’s infrastructure by simplifying the development of distributed applications.
To address the limitations in their existing infrastructure, the Weixin team has opted for Anyscale’s Ray, which offers an intuitive programming model that enables efficient management of massive AI workloads. The collaboration is expected to overcome the hurdles faced by traditional solutions like P6n and Gemini platforms, which were either too costly or fell short in meeting real-time performance requirements.
One major challenge Weixin had encountered was the need for a platform capable of handling computationally intensive tasks, such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), that necessitated an extraordinary amount of CPU cores. The integration with Ray addresses these limitations by enabling scalable AI deployment across heterogeneous resources.
The newly developed AstraRay engine, built upon Ray, has been instrumental in addressing these issues. This innovative solution supports ultra-large-scale resource scheduling and efficient deployment, ultimately streamlining the app’s AI operations and enhancing overall performance.
Source: Blockchain.News
