Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – September 9, 2026 – As part of GSMA M360 ASEAN 2026, Huawei hosted the AI & Innovation tour at Huawei AI Innovation Centre Kuala Lumpur, convening delegates from leading telecom operators and industry partners across the Asia Pacific region. The exclusive session showcased Huawei’s comprehensive AI initiatives—from self-use capability building to empowering industries and nations—demonstrating how telcos are evolving from connectivity providers to intelligent value orchestrators in the AI era.
James Zhang, Chief Marketing Officer of ICT Marketing & Solution Sales Dept, Huawei Asia Pacific, presented key insights on the APAC evolving intelligence ecosystem. “APAC’s intelligent economy is blooming toward a $1.4 trillion market by 2030 at a 15% CAGR. Driven by 10+ GW of compute infrastructure, the unprecedented rise of agentic AI and its rapid adoption are unlocking 10x more business opportunities, propelling industries into an era of silicon-based interconnection and smart services” highlighted Mr. James. He added “At Huawei, we believe the true value of AI lies not in technology alone, but in how we apply it to solve real-world challenges—from optimizing network experiences to empowering small businesses and transforming national digital infrastructure”. The tour also covered variety of AI devices from the China market including AI pets, AI glasses, AI assistants that are accelerating the adoption in the market locally and are ready to expand to other markets in APAC.
The showcase demonstrated AI architecture, Huawei’s agentic, model and platform innovations that is redefining workflows across internal operations for telcos, consumer services, and industry applications. The real-life use cases emphasized Huawei’s AI-to-SME initiative, that enables telcos to provide standard, intelligent, one-stop ICT solutions for small shops, healthcare, and education sectors.
The showcase also featured Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPoD for multi-trillion parameter model training, the Telco AI Foundry enabling operators to build sovereign AI capabilities, and the company’s commitment to an open ecosystem through Ascend computing, Kunpeng processors, and compatibility with mainstream frameworks like PyTorch and DeepSeek.
