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Huawei Unveils the Three-Step ACT Pathway for Industrial Intelligence Transformation

At the recent HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 event held in Shanghai, Leo Chen, Senior Vice President and Head of Enterprise Sales at Huawei, introduced the company’s strategic framework for advancing industrial intelligence. This includes the ACT pathway – an innovative three-step approach designed to help businesses effectively adopt artificial intelligence (AI) across various industries. The session was aptly titled "Breaking New Ground to Industrial Intelligence," highlighting Huawei's commitment to steering the transformation journey for businesses.

Key Developments in Industrial Intelligence

In the wake of rapid advancements in AI technology, Chen identified three crucial questions that companies face today:

• - How can businesses ensure their investments in AI yield real commercial value?
• - How can they leverage their own data to sustain competitive advantages?
• - How can businesses help AI use cases transition beyond pilot projects toward large-scale implementations?

To illustrate Huawei's strategies, Chen shared successful case studies from three different sectors.

1. Banking Transformation: Huawei collaborated with a banking client to create a dynamic master-agent architecture that integrates systematic engineering capabilities within banking workflows. This innovation enabled the client to enhance AI deployment in various scenarios, such as customer interactions and risk management, ultimately boosting revenue and efficiency while improving risk handling.

2. Power Sector Innovation: China Southern Power Grid utilized Huawei’s Ascend computing platform and the MindSpore AI framework to establish a model called "MegaWatt." Operating on a specialized Ascend MoE Expert Parallelism cluster, this model combines computer vision and natural language processing, leading to a fivefold increase in defect identification efficiency during smart power line inspections, alongside image recognition accuracy surpassing 90%.

3. Healthcare Enhancement: Runda Medical employed Huawei's Ascend inference servers to devise an AI-integrated medical record solution. Deployed at West China Hospital, this innovation drastically reduced the medical records generation time to about one second, significantly improving the hospital's operational efficiency.

Insights Gained from AI Implementation

Throughout these projects, several key insights emerged:

• - Scenario Selection is Critical: Identifying appropriate implementation scenarios is essential for successful transformation. AI's value emerges from its ability to remodel processes when deeply integrated with core production scenarios.
• - Data Quality Determines Model Efficacy: The effectiveness of industry-specific models heavily relies on the quality of vertical data, as generic models may struggle with specific industrial applications. High-quality proprietary data is pivotal in training these targeted models, providing a competitive edge for businesses.
• - Increasing Demand for Large-Scale Inference: There is a projected surge in demand for large-scale inference parallel to the deployment of AI agents.
• - Human-AI Collaboration: A new paradigm where humans and AI work collaboratively is gradually taking shape.
• - Importance of Governance: Enhanced systematic governance and risk management strategies are more critical than ever to ensure safe, sustainable AI applications.

The ACT Pathway Explained

Huawei’s ACT pathway is structured as follows:

• - Assess High-Value Scenarios: Identify valuable scenarios through an AI evaluation framework that considers commercial value, scenario maturity, and technology integration.
• - Calibrate AI Models: Utilizing vertical data, this step involves tuning general models to develop specific industry-focused models, transforming raw data into actionable insights.
• - Transform Business Operations: The final phase leverages Huawei’s unique Versatile platform, designed to swiftly generate large-scale AI agents and workflows with more than 100 steps, expediting their deployment.

Moreover, Huawei places great emphasis on talent development in the field of AI, equipping professionals with the skills necessary to effectively develop and deploy AI agents.

Companies aspiring to embark on the ACT pathway require AI-centric ICT infrastructure, which encompasses everything from data preparation to model training and inference. Chen affirmed Huawei's ongoing innovations in data storage, computing, and networking, aimed at creating integrated products that facilitate this transformation process. Key offerings include specialized AI storage, high-speed 800GE data center networking solutions, and the Ascend AI SuperPoD 384.

Launch Announcement: Nine Key Solutions

At the conclusion of the main session, Huawei highlighted nine significant solutions co-developed with its partners, tailored specifically for industrial intelligence. These include:

• - City AI Center Foundation Model Solution
• - Intelligent Computing Labs Solution
• - Medical Technology Digital and Intelligence 2.0 Solution
• - Banking AI and Foundation Model Solution
• - Intelligent Manufacturing RD Solution
• - SMART Logistics Warehousing Solution
• - Intelligent Distribution Solution
• - Intelligent Exploration and Development Solution for Oil and Gas
• - Steel Blast Furnace Temperature Prediction Solution

These advancements reflect Huawei's commitment to collaborating in an ecosystem enriched by over 6,300 Kunpeng partners, 2,700 Ascend partners, 70 consulting firms, and 750 independent software vendors.

By embracing the ACT pathway, businesses can look forward to leveraging AI's real potential to enhance operations, drive innovations, and achieve greater efficiencies in the industrial landscape.