Huawei's Vision Report Outlines 10 Key Directions for Intelligent World 2035

Huawei's Vision for an Intelligent World by 2035

Huawei recently held an online promotional event for its series of reports on an Intelligent World, themed "Act Today, Shape Tomorrow." During this event, the company officially launched two significant research papers: "Turning Vision into Action for the Intelligent World 2035" and the "Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index 2026." This initiative aims to provide a clear roadmap for building a smart world by addressing the primary challenges that arise with the advent of agent-based AI.

The report asserts that AI is no longer just a tool; it is infiltrating the foundational processes of operations and society, reshaping the fundamental logic of industries and accelerating transformation across sectors. David Wang, Vice Chairman of Huawei's Board, emphasized the critical role of agent-based AI in this transformation. He noted that while the direction is clear, concrete steps are necessary to actualize this vision, which the report strategically focuses on.

The report discusses the shift from an application-centric to an agent-centric digital world, in which agents continuously perceive their environment, reason autonomously, and engage in real-time interactions with humans. Each of these processes involves immense token generation and high-frequency token flow, predicting that by 2035, global annual token consumption will surge by 100,000 times, with over 90% stemming from agents. This transformation will impose significant demands on computational, network, and cloud infrastructures, exceeding traditional Internet application requirements.

To systematically address these challenges, the report outlines ten essential directions:
1. Development of AGI: Pathways for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to integrate into the physical world through advancements in linguistic, embodied, and scientific intelligence.
2. Scaling Computational Clusters: Increasing computational capacity by 100-fold and reducing agent task costs by 1,000 times, necessitating a transition to SuperPoD computing systems.
3. New Storage Systems: Supporting the evolution from data to knowledge with storage and memory systems that ensure causal accuracy and reliability.
4. Smart Connectivity: AI-integrated communication systems that enhance user experiences and connectivity infrastructure.
5. Chip Design Methodologies: Investigating delay and energy efficiency by optimizing for time rather than geometric scaling in semiconductor development.
6. Agent Operating Systems: Transitioning to an autonomous evolutionary model that summarizes capabilities through a combination of Coordination, Application, Memory, and Connectivity.
7. Universal Smart Services: Defining a new paradigm for device intelligence that ensures seamless adaptation and availability across diverse scenarios.
8. Self-learning in Smart Driving: Enabling vehicles to evolve into moving, autonomous agents while ensuring top-level safety.
9. Overcoming Physical Limits: Addressing power and thermal constraints to enhance the computational power of AI data centers.
10. Securing the Intelligent World: Ensuring security and privacy protections for autonomous agents within smart environments.

The report highlights that to effectively manage the challenges posed by the agent-based AI era, developing a token-centric, end-to-end intelligent infrastructure that encompasses token creation, distribution, consumption, and security is paramount. Achieving this entails establishing SuperPoDs and open ecosystems to boost production efficiency, constructing intelligent connectivity infrastructures for seamless token flow, and rolling out agent-based cloud platforms to accelerate AI implementation across sectors. These developments will convert tokens into perceptible intelligent services, transforming both user experiences for individuals and operational paradigms for organizations.

In conclusion, Huawei suggests five initiatives to translate technological innovations into industry progress: adopting a long-term perspective, maintaining a human-centered approach, advocating the use of technology for good, upholding transparency and collaboration, and embracing a systematic methodology. The event also unveiled the "2026 Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index," jointly developed by Huawei and Tsinghua University's Economics Institute. This report brings together insights from experts in economics, sociology, and information and communication technology, projecting that AI will generate over $27 trillion in economic value within the next five years and predicting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.14% for global investments in digital and intelligent infrastructure, surpassing $4 trillion by 2030. These projections underscore the robust foundation for the ongoing expansion of the smart economy.

As articulated in the report's preface, "Visions are painted with words, but measured by actions." Huawei is committed to partnering with customers and stakeholders worldwide, aiming to translate every tangible step taken today into meaningful progress toward the Intelligent World 2035 goal. For more information, please visit Huawei's Intelligent World.