[Shenzhen, China, April 17, 2024] The 21st Huawei Analyst Summit (HAS) kicked off today in Shenzhen. The event brought together more than 500 analysts, think tank researchers and other guests from around the world to explore what’s next in the intelligence era, where the ICT industry is headed, and how different industries verticals are adopting artificial intelligence.
During the event, Huawei Vice President and Rotating Chairman Eric Xu delivered a speech on the company’s steps to refresh its All Intelligence strategy.
Eric Xu, Vice President and Rotating Chairman of Huawei, delivering a speech at HAS 2024
Xu explained Huawei’s strategic initiatives for 2024, with a particular focus on the key actions the company is taking to seize strategic opportunities in the field of AI and advance its All Intelligence strategy. With this strategy, Huawei aims to progress on several tracks. The first is to advance AI and create thriving ecosystems for shared success. The second avenue consists of using AI to improve the competitiveness of the company’s products and solutions. More specifically, the company:
- Help industries adopt intelligence with its ready-to-use AI models, available as a service through its Ascend cloud service, and its Pangu models, specially trained to address industry-specific challenges.
- Revolutionize network operation and maintenance with its Autonomous Driving Network (ADN) solutions
- Paving the way for a driverless future with its autonomous driving solutions for vehicles
- Improve the consumer experience by evolving your Celia smart assistant into an AI super agent powered by Pangu models
As part of this strategy, the company is also actively integrating AI into its internal management to increase efficiency, while investing in fundamental AI research to promote continued innovation in this area. Huawei has and will continue to proactively engage in global AI governance and implement effective governance in all product design and pre-launch activities.
Towards the end of his speech, Xu highlighted: “In October 2018, we officially unveiled our AI strategy and Full-Stack, All-Scenario AI portfolio. Since then, we have continued this strategy, developing all kinds of AI. solutions in our progression towards All Intelligence. »
Dr. Zhou Hong, President of Huawei Strategic Research Institute, also shared Huawei’s thoughts and perspectives on the intelligence era. According to Zhou, “We will enter an era of all intelligence in about 20 years. It will be a future defined by information perception, communications, computing and control, changing the way we live and work, redefining our relationship with the natural environment, and opening the doors to a new digital world He noted that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will play a key role in creating this future.
Zhou presented four suggestions for increasing the accuracy, adaptability, creativity and efficiency of AGI:
- Develop multiple forms of intelligence
- Building an autonomous agent-based open intelligent system
- Develop new calculation methods, architectures and components
- Taking a systems engineering approach to AI development
“As we continue to shape our hypotheses and vision for the future, we want to work more closely with our partners for open and joint innovation,” concluded Zhou. “Now more than ever, we need science and technology to make new advances.”
The Huawei Analyst Summit was first held in 2004 and has continued annually for 21 years. Themed “Thrive with Intelligence”, this year’s event will be held from April 17-19 and includes a wide range of breakout sessions on different aspects of Huawei’s business.
For more information, please visit https://www.huawei.com/en/events/has
