Huawei's Yang Chaobin Highlights AI's Transformative Power at MWC 2025

As part of his presentation, Huawei’s new AI-Centric Network solution was also introduced.

“Thanks to breakthroughs in AI, a large number of innovative intelligent applications have emerged. This is allowing AI to quickly integrate into work and daily life,” he noted.

To visualize this, he cited examples such as running shoes with built-in vision capabilities, robots that can handle housework and care for the elderly, and drones that are already being widely used for deliveries.

Intelligent Services: Stimulating Three Levels of Network Demands

With more intelligent services materializing in the market, individuals, businesses, and the public are anticipated to demand more from networks, particularly in terms of uplink, downlink, and latency requirements. Chaobin expounded on how AI will increase these demands according to three levels.

As more 5G applications emerge, the experience requirements of individual users, including delivery drivers, livestreamers, and gamers, are changing. “Individual users no longer need just traffic-based experiences; they demand more personalized services. This means networks will need diversified capabilities,” stated the Huawei executive.

Firstly, AI is driving traffic increases. In fact, to support in-car AI assistants and entertainment, the monthly data traffic per user (DOU) within smart vehicles has exceeded 200 GB—10 times the average DOU of individual users. Secondly, the boom in AI-powered interactive experiences will require networks with larger uplink capacity. Moreover, 10 million people are expected to use AI glasses by the end of 2025.

At the organizational level, AI-centric networks can break through bottlenecks in capacity and response times configured for person-to-person interactions, evolving networks to support intelligent collaboration modes, from person-to-agent to agent-to-agent interactivity.

For example, in smart manufacturing scenarios, cloud-network-edge-device collaboration is ideal where in multiple robots need to synchronize their actions in real time to avoid collisions, requiring the deployment of edge cloud.

Delivering this ultimate experience will require AI-driven networks that can support dynamic configuration of connections, provide capabilities of uplink, downlink, latency and reliability as required. Moving forward, there will be a surge in the number of connections, the frequency of interactions, and response speed in connection to this upgrade.

From a nationwide perspective, if we look at societies as a whole, AI applications will be everywhere, consequently accelerating intelligent transformation. Huawei forecasts that there will be 200 billion connections around the world by 2030.

Within the next five years, L3 and L4 autonomous vehicles are expected to reach mainstream adoption, while more than 25% of health and nursing services will become accessible online for patients and those in need.

New AI-Centric Network Solution

Chaobin highlighted Huawei’s AI-Centric Network solution in the keynote. “Huawei's AI-Centric Network solution is designed to address these needs,” he mentioned. “It revolutionizes network capabilities to enable all-domain connectivity. It will power a shift towards application-oriented O&M, and will reshape telecom service and business models to take full advantage of new opportunities presented by AI.”

Specifically, Huawei’s AI-Centric Network solution will:

• Reshape Connectivity: Huawei’s AI-Centric Network solution uses its advanced AI Core and 5.5G solutions to deliver ubiquitous, high-bandwidth, deterministic network and intelligent scheduling across all domains.

Additionally, AI-driven collaboration with networks enables optimal resource allocation, ensuring intelligent applications, and guaranteed service-level agreements (SLAs).

• Reshape Operations and Maintenance (O&M): Huawei’s AI-Centric Network solution also delivers an application-oriented O&M architecture. Through instant assurance of diverse experience, it realizes refined operations and supports application-oriented network optimization continuously. Beyond this, it makes predictive and proactive O&M possible, thanks to AI agent and copilot assistance, ensuring optimal support for every intelligent application.
• Support Innovative Business Models: With enhanced AI-to-X services, different experience requirements will give carriers the opportunity to explore new business models that can bring higher monetization value. AI-centric networks will allow carriers to go beyond traditional traffic-based monetization and start monetizing experience itself.

“The AI era is fast approaching. We are ready to work with carriers and partners around the world to help networks achieve ubiquitous, ultra-broadband, and all-domain connectivity. We will continue working to enhance intelligence, make networks more efficient, and deliver superior user experience,” concluded Chaobin.

Towards a Truly Intelligent World

It is worth noting that Huawei announced its AI strategy in 2018; since then, multiple advancements have been implemented across Huawei's AI portfolio, covering all deployment scenarios, including public and private clouds and edge computing as well as Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Innovative technologies like AI, 5G, ultra-broadband, and cloud computing are reinforcing the need for AI-centric, all-domain connectivity to handle the surge in digital services and support the accelerating pace of digital transformation.

Huawei’s Yang Chaobin underscored that AI-centric innovations like agentic AI and all-domain connectivity will redefine how the industry creates, shares, and utilizes data. Huawei is not only addressing the challenges posed by AI-driven applications but also supporting new opportunities, ensuring that operators can thrive in the market.

By fostering collaboration across the industry, vested stakeholders can create a truly intelligent world where AI is inclusive and accessible to every person and organization.