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Huawei Unveils ACT Pathway and Key Solutions for Industrial Intelligence

During the HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 conference, Leo Chen, the Senior Vice President of Huawei and head of Enterprise Sales, introduced groundbreaking insights and practical applications for industrial intelligence. Among the highlights was the unveiling of the three-stage pathway known as "ACT," designed specifically for smart transformation. This pathway includes key aspects that businesses must address to leverage artificial intelligence effectively.

Three Key Questions for Businesses

Leo Chen emphasized that as artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, it raises significant questions for enterprises:
1. How can businesses ensure their investments in AI yield tangible business value?
2. In what ways can companies utilize their data to maintain a competitive edge?
3. How can AI applications move beyond pilot phases to achieve widespread implementation?

To provide clarity, Chen shared three success stories showcasing Huawei's response to these challenges. The first involved a dynamic architecture between agency and sub-agency for the banking sector, which combined system engineering capabilities with banking processes. This innovation accelerated AI deployment for various scenarios, enhancing client revenues while better managing risks.

The second example highlighted collaboration with the China Southern Power Grid, which utilized Huawei’s Ascend computing platform and MindSpore AI framework to develop a large model named "MegaWatt." This model integrates computer vision and natural language processing, significantly improving defect identification and risk assessment efficiency during smart inspections of power lines. The accuracy of image recognition soared beyond 90%.

The final case study illustrated how Runda Medical deployed Huawei’s Ascend inference servers to enhance medical documentation, expediting data registration and improving consultation efficiency drastically—reporting documentation generation times down to approximately one second.

Key Insights from Transformation Projects

Following these examples, Leo Chen outlined five core insights derived from Huawei's smart transformation initiatives:
1. Selecting the right deployment scenarios is critical for successful transformation; AI’s value lies in its capacity to enhance processes and support smart production when well integrated.
2. High-quality vertical data support is pivotal for industry-specific models, as general-purpose models may struggle with industrial applications. Significant advantages come from tailored models trained on vast proprietary data sets.
3. As AI agents evolve, the demand for large-scale inference will grow, increasing the need for large-scale inference solutions.
4. Collaboration between humans and AI is emerging as a new organizational paradigm.
5. Systematic management and risk control are becoming increasingly vital, pushing many organizations to seek effective management methods to ensure safe, trustworthy AI implementation.

The ACT Pathway Explained

Huawei's proposed three-stage ACT pathway is crafted to aid AI deployment across various industries. "ACT" stands for Assess, Calibrate, and Transform:

• - Assess: Evaluate high-value scenarios using Huawei’s AI scenario assessment framework, which analyzes business value and maturity levels to identify over 1000 critical production scenarios suitable for AI applications.
• - Calibrate: Utilize vertical data to help enterprises transition raw data into insights, culminating in creating industry-specific models.
• - Transform: Implement AI-driven transformations within businesses by leveraging Huawei's Versatile platform to automate agent and workflow generation with over 100 processes. This stage is supported by a talent development program aimed at empowering professionals to proficiently create, deploy, and maintain AI agents.

For enterprises to follow the ACT pathway, a comprehensive AI-oriented ICT infrastructure is essential, covering the entire process from data preparation and transfer to model training, inference, and application development. Leo Chen reiterated Huawei's commitment to innovating in data storage, computing power, and networking, creating integrated products that facilitate this process for clients, including AI storage solutions, unified cache management plugins, 800GE networking solutions for data centers, highly reliable optical modules, and the Ascend AI SuperPoD 384 supercluster.

Nine Innovative Solutions Unveiled

Before concluding his address, Huawei presented nine innovative solutions co-developed with partners. These included:

• - 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 R&D Solution
• - SMART Logistics and Warehousing Solution
• - Intelligent Distribution Solution
• - Intelligent Exploration and Development Solution for Oil and Gas
• - Steel Blast Furnace Temperature Prediction Solution

Through the "Huawei + Partners" ecosystem, Huawei aims to foster collaboration, sharing resources across software, hardware, and systems, while enabling knowledge exchange to replicate proven practices swiftly. To date, this ecosystem has attracted over 6,300 Kunpeng partners, 2,700 Ascend partners, 70 consulting firms, and 750 independent software vendors (ISVs).

In summary, the advancements showcased at HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 underline Huawei's leadership in driving industrial intelligence through innovative solutions and a robust approach to AI integration.