Huawei Pushes Industrial AI at MWC

The new hybrid cloud offering is named Huawei Cloud Foundation (HCF). It aims to provide a more open and resilient experience, allowing enterprises to maintain on-premise systems for security while using public cloud services for innovation and agility. This initiative is part of a strategic shift from focusing on sheer compute power to achieving tangible efficiency gains. Huawei Cloud CEO Dr. Peter Zhou emphasized that both cloud and AI are at the core of the company's strategy, driving sustained investment in research and development. Alongside the industrial AI push, the company also presented CodeArts, an AI-powered coding assistant. Another new service, the Intelligent Computing Platform Service Solution, is designed to significantly shorten the build times for AI-focused data centers from over seven months down to four to six months. Huawei's Pangu AI model is already deployed in over 30 sectors. At Shanghai Baowu Steel, it increased the accuracy of hot rolling production predictions by 5%, which translates to an annual revenue increase of CNY90 million for each production line. The company's vision extends to the network infrastructure required for AI, framing the current era as a transition from the "mobile internet" to the "Internet of Agents (IoA)". To support this, Huawei also launched a full suite of U6GHz products to enable 5G-Advanced networks, which are seen as a necessary step toward 6G. For telecom operators specifically, Huawei is releasing an "AI-Native" framework for intelligent operations. This system uses Digital Twin Networks (DTN) and domain-specific models to create closed-loop systems that can continuously optimize network performance and move toward fully autonomous operations. These technological pushes are backed by a consistent company strategy of investing 10% of its revenue back into R&D. This long-term approach has also enabled Huawei to develop products and services that have zero reliance on the U.S. supply chain.