Huawei Launches Industry's First AI Core Network, a New Momentum in the Mobile AI Era

Huawei Launches Industry's First AI Core Network, a New Momentum in the Mobile AI Era

At MWC Barcelona 2025, George Gao, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, announced the launch of the industry's first AI Core Network, marking a transformative leap from AI-powered to AI-native infrastructure. The AI Core Network will be an autonomous generative network capable of self-optimization and self-O&M, enabling the whole industry to evolve from connecting everything intelligently to seamlessly interlinking AI-driven agents, terminals, and scenarios.

Transition to Mobile AI

The 5G era is evolving into a mobile AI era, demanding advanced services like media generation and editing. To meet the requirements of AI-powered smartphones, 5G networks must evolve into 5G-Advanced and integrate AI native capabilities. Intelligent service scenarios are becoming increasingly complex, and user devices are evolving to deliver even greater intelligence and functions. But the computing and storage capabilities on the user device side is limited, and battery life is also a bottleneck.

To address these issues, core networks must evolve into AI-native systems, to provide low-latency, wide-coverage, ecosystem-neutral, and secure access to multiple service agents, tools, and platforms.

AI Native Core Network Evolution

Huawei’s AI Core Network rollout will be rolled out in two phases:

Phase 1 – 5G-A Intelligent Core: The 5G-Advanced network will integrate AI agents to enhance intelligent network capabilities. By introducing computing-network convergence, the network can boost intelligent computing capabilities for terminals while overcoming their computing power and energy efficiency bottlenecks.

Phase 2 – Agentic Core: Leveraging AI-based architecture (AIBA), the network will be an autonomous generative network capable of self-optimisation, meaning it will dynamically adapt to diverse real-time service needs.

Gao said that Huawei’s 5G-A Intelligent Core equips operators with three types of AI agents, to monetise intelligence. Huawei is also building an intelligent distributed computing infrastructure, featuring low-latency and high-bandwidth, to provide computing and network convergence services to terminals and industries.

He described these three agent types:

1.      Calling agents process multi-modal inputs (voice, video, gestures) to transform traditional dial pads into intent-driven task managers, facilitating one-stop closed-loop of service tasks and capturing service entry opportunities.

2.      Personalised experience agents dynamically schedule network resources for differentiated user experiences, redefining user experience, providing operators with an entry to experience monetisation.

3.      Intelligent O&M agents resolve complaints and alarms via natural language interaction and AI inference, streamlining O&M through a unified portal.

Additionally, Huawei use the computing-network convergence service to extend intelligent network capabilities to user devices and vertical industry enterprises, to realize the “Core for AI" vision.

Behind the three intelligences, the network infrastructure also needs to go intelligent. It shall provide general computing and heterogeneous computing capabilities, for AI services in all scenarios.

Personalized Experience Agent

Operators' monetization approaches are based on network privileges, mainly about the network access type and traffic. However, from 2G to 4G, traffic monetization has become the mainstream, but high-end users cannot be easily attracted by package traffic. The traditional network privileges are less effective over time. Huawei sees user experiences will bring fundamental changes to network privileges. Operators will focus on delivering exceptional user experiences, and expand network privileges accordingly. And they hope the network can track service experiences in real time, offer experience packages to deliver differentiated and precise guarantee for key user groups and etc. In this way, operators achieve experience monetization.

To address user experience challenges, Huawei introduces an Intelligent Experience Agent that, through its Intelligent Personalized Experience solution, provides real-time, comprehensive user experience awareness by analyzing user attributes and location. This allows for rapid user identification, targeted package delivery, and real-time feedback through features like "MyLogo," which also serves as a monetization tool for personalized interactions such as birthday greetings.

Intelligent Calling Agent

Voice is the most efficient means of interaction. Statistics show that the monthly call volume of China Mobile customer service reaches 510 million, accounting for 87% of all its service requests. It's clear that phone calls are still the primary entry for enterprise customer services. By using AI capabilities, operators are able to transform the traditional dial pad into a critical gateway and create intelligent calling agents to enhance user communication experiences and efficiency. In the past, planning a trip required numerous interactions, including booking hotels and flights. With the intelligent calling agent, users can simply dial the unified customer service number to access the intelligent calling agent platform, which then invokes relevant external enterprise service agents based on user needs, and quickly completes tasks like booking tickets and hotels according to their preferences. This enables multiple complex tasks to be handled within a single call.

The intelligent calling agent can perceive user inputs in real-time, including semantics, emotions, intent, and provide personalized digital assistants tailored to individual user settings. The intelligent calling agent orchestrates and distributes multiple tasks based on user intent, and collaborates with third-party agents to efficiently complete tasks. Given the unique strengths operators have in voice channels and number resources, it's easy for them to build an open ecosystem for enterprise applications without requiring adaptation on the enterprise side, ultimately achieving the goal of 'one number, one agent'. Operators possess distinct advantages over OTT players when it comes to providing AI services, thanks to their established user base, real-time voice capabilities, and vast number resources. With these strengths, operators can create their own entries for AI services.

Intelligent O&M Agent

Core networks is becoming more complex, resulting in a doubling of O&M workload. The intelligent O&M agents greatly improve the efficiency, and eliminate the need of extra personnel. In the past, handling core network problems required collaboration among multiple senior experts, and they had to use multiple tools. The intelligent O&M agent offers a unified O&M entry and automatically resolve problems through natural language interaction. It can understand user intentions, plan complex tasks, and automatically invoke tools. Now, the O&M agents have been deployed in China Mobile and improve the O&M efficiency by 60%.

Network-based Intelligent Computing Power

As AI agent capabilities gradually advance and increasing, computing requirements and energy consumption increasing also. More and more terminals like cloud phones, smart vehicles, and IoT devices expect to obtain network-based intelligent computing power. To address these issues, Huawei says they are committed to developing three key capabilities for the core network. The first capability is to precisely perceive terminals' intelligent computing requirements, such as computing power amount, bandwidth, and latency, in milliseconds. The second capability is to efficiently manage and schedule computing power, so that computing power can be centrally provisioned and deployed at multiple geographical sites. The third capability is to ensure the SLA of high-level AI computing power by optimizing edge traffic steering and experience improvement. This enables a distributed, low-latency, high-bandwidth intelligent computing infrastructure, bringing real-time precision to terminals and supporting diverse AI services across ToC, ToB, and ToH scenarios.

Telco Intelligent Converged Cloud

To better support the agents and build an intelligent computing infrastructure, Huawei is upgrading from the conventional Telco Cloud to the Telco Intelligent Converged Cloud, TICC. Firstly, TICC can manage heterogeneous hardware to deliver AI computing resources. Secondly, it integrates the AI enablement platform FusionMind, which offers high-quality training and inference services for agents.

Each AI agent has unique needs—low latency, high accuracy, or greater concurrency. Carrier-grade tuning, optimized algorithms, and hardware-software synergy help to address these requirements. For example, TICC optimizes operators, reduces computational complexity so as to double service throughput. Huawei believes TICC will maximize the upper-layer NEs performance and empower carriers to build a leading intelligent telecom foundation in the mobile AI era.

In conclusion, in the mobile AI era, devices, networks, and services develop in a coordinated manner. The 5G-A intelligent core network integrates intelligent agents to deliver service intelligence, network intelligence, and O&M intelligence. Through computing network convergence services, the 5G-A intelligent core network enables devices and vertical industry enterprises to achieve intelligent connectivity of everything. Huawei believes, in the future, the AI core network will continue to evolve. A series of network agents will be deployed to automatically generate networks, realizing intelligent connectivity of AI agents.

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New Huawei Solution Introduces AI to the Telco Cloud for the Very First Time

At the 5G-A Core Summit at MWC 2025 in Barcelona, Frank Lin Wei, President of the Intelligent Telco Cloud Domain of Huawei Cloud Core Network, delivered a keynote speech and unveiled the Telco Intelligent Converged Cloud (TICC) solution. This solution marks the first introduction of an AI framework to the Telco Cloud and establishes the inaugural AI enablement platform within the core network sector. As such, it helps operators upgrade their telecom infrastructure regarding architecture, automation, sustainability, and AI, enabling them to tackle intricate network challenges, foster AI-powered service innovations, and construct cutting-edge telecom infrastructure for the mobile AI era.

From telegraphs and telephones to mobile communications, the Internet, and today's advancements in AI, the cloud, and quantum technologies, every significant technological leap throughout human history has profoundly transformed our lives and societal structures. In the era of mobile AI, how can the Telco Cloud, our telecom network infrastructure, adapt to meet new demands? How can it evolve into a cloud-based, AI-powered infrastructure, drive service innovation, and expedite network automation and intelligence?

To these questions, Mr. Lin emphasized that future-facing telecom infrastructure must offer advanced general and intelligent computing capabilities, alongside high-performance storage and networking solutions. Such infrastructure should natively support various resource types including Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, and bare metal servers. Additionally, it must possess the ability for seamless evolution, automation, energy efficiency, and comprehensive AI integration, thereby serving as the intelligent backbone of the mobile AI era.

Powered by cutting-edge, fully converged dual-engine container architecture, Huawei's TICC offers end-to-end automation and energy efficiency features. It acts as an advanced AI-enabling platform that assists operators in seamlessly evolving their networks, ensuring secure network changes, lowering overall energy consumption, and delivering versatile AI computing resources to support various AI applications. This positions operators to grasp the opportunities of the mobile AI era.

Dual-Engine Container Architecture: A Seamless Path to Evolution

The dual-engine container architecture supports both OpenStack and Kubernetes. It lets operators adopt containers through capacity expansion instead of new deployments, allows network and storage resources to be shared, and simplifies Operations and Maintenance (O&M), helping operators transition to container technology. In August 2024, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), one of Indonesia's leading operators, partnered with Huawei to put the dual-engine container architecture into commercial use for the first time, completing the world's largest Packet Switched (PS) network consolidation project and setting a benchmark for container evolution in the industry.

End-to-End (E2E) Automation: Unlocking the Value of Agile Cloudification

E2E automation is essential for ensuring secure network changes and improving network agility, both of which are vital for operators to realize cloud value. Huawei's TICC offers comprehensive orchestration for telecom services, providing unified cross-layer and cross-domain O&M management. Using digital twin and simulation technologies, TICC minimizes the risks associated with high-risk operations. Additionally, its support for Long-Term Support (LTS) versions and multi-Operating System (OS) technologies reduces the need for frequent network changes, boosting overall network efficiency and supporting agile cloudification.

System-Level Energy Efficiency: Driving Low-Carbon Sustainability

Huawei's TICC introduces a holistic energy-saving solution that integrates green hardware, a green cloud platform, a green management system, and eco-friendly Network Elements (NEs). Through advanced algorithms that identify service loads and optimize performance during peak and off-peak periods, TICC achieves precise frequency modulation at the millisecond level. This results in a more than 25% reduction in system-wide power consumption, enhances resource utilization, and fosters sustainable, low-carbon operations.

AI Enablement Platform: Harnessing AI for All Telecom Scenarios

TICC revolutionizes the core network sector by introducing the innovative AI engine FusionMind, which establishes the first AI enablement platform in this field. This platform comprises three key modules: an agent framework, training, and inference. It supports flexible scheduling of diverse computing resources and integrates hardware-software collaboration to enhance computational efficiency, fulfilling the AI processing demands across all telecom service scenarios.

Moving forward, Huawei is committed to collaborating with industry partners to develop the most robust computing infrastructure for the mobile AI era, using TICC. This initiative aims to facilitate rapid service innovation among operators and drive the evolution toward advanced intelligent telecom networks as part of their digital and intelligent transformations.

Huawei bets big on AI integration in Telecom Networks

At MWC 2025 in Barcelona, I observed Huawei is presenting its vision of the future of telecom networks. AI plays a central role. It is the engine for further improvement in network infrastructures. The Chinese company foresees a transition from traditional telecom companies (telcos) to technology companies (techcos) through significant upgrades.

The new network Huawei envisions is also described as the AI-Centric Network. This principle is central to the strategy to modernize network infrastructure. In this model, traditional telecom networks are optimized to meet higher bandwidth, latency and coverage standards. The goal is twofold: on the one hand, the infrastructure is upgraded so that AI applications can be better supported; on the other, it creates space for telecom companies to enter new domains. This upgrade provides the foundation for telcos to develop into full-scale techcos that offer other technologies, such as cloud computing and AI, in addition to connectivity services.

Huawei is developing new AI-focused 5.5G solutions that should mainly improve the user experience. Traditionally, mobile connections were mainly downlink-centric, but progress in AI is changing this. Interactions are shifting to dynamic interplay between humans and AI and even AI-to-AI communication. A robust infrastructure with higher uplink capacity and lower latency is necessary for these processes to work smoothly.

Cloud and AI Integration - Huawei Cloud plays a crucial role in this transition, including for telecom. As far as Huawei is concerned, the cloud has two main ways to help networks move forward. One can be described as AI for Cloud, or enriching existing cloud services with AI functionality. Huawei describes the other as Cloud for AI. That, in turn, focuses on the cloud as a platform for AI applications.

This approach means that cloud solutions are no longer separate from AI technology; rather, both elements are seamlessly integrated. Part of this is the CloudDC solution, which gives telecom companies access to more than 30 Tier 3+ data centers worldwide. This infrastructure allows fault detection and troubleshooting to take place rapidly, contributing to the reliability and speed of services.

Proprietary AI models - In addition to the infrastructure, Huawei also emphasized during Mobile World Congress 2025 that it is making work of its AI models, under the name Pangu. These models are already being applied in more than 30 sectors and more than 400 use cases, demonstrating the technology’s broad applicability. At the same time, this requires attention to security aspects. New solutions, such as the Large Model Security Solution and the Cloud Multilayer Ransomware Protection Solution, provide end-to-end security for both large language models and the broader network. These measures are essential to protect data and business processes from cyber attacks.

Huawei Enterprise Business Group (EBG) Booth Tour Session

At MWC 2025, Huawei placed a significant emphasis on showcasing its advancements in fully industrial networks, particularly through the upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Network solutions. This initiative underscores Huawei's commitment to driving digital and intelligent transformation across various industrial sectors. The core focus revolves around the integration of AI into network infrastructure to enhance efficiency, security, and overall performance.

Huawei's demonstration highlighted the critical need for upgraded network infrastructures to support the demands of the AI era. This includes the ability to handle massive data processing, ensure real-time responses, facilitate intelligent applications, and provide robust security protection. To address these needs, Huawei unveiled fully upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Network offerings, designed to build AI-powered, high-quality networks. These solutions are tailored for specific domains, including campus networks, data center networks (DCN), wide area networks (WAN), and security.

Key highlights of Huawei's showcase included the introduction of cutting-edge products and solutions, such as highly secure Wi-Fi 7 products, high-density converged routers, and advanced data center switches. Furthermore, the company emphasized the role of its network AI agent, NetMaster, in enabling intelligent network management. By providing these comprehensive and intelligent network solutions, Huawei aims to empower industries to accelerate their digital transformation and unlock greater business value.

At MWC 2025, Huawei demonstrated its advancements in remote driving technology, showcasing the capability to control a vehicle located thousands of kms’ away. This demonstration highlighted the potential of low-latency communication networks in enabling real-time remote operation of vehicles. By utilizing advanced network infrastructure, Huawei illustrated how drivers could remotely maneuver cars across vast distances, emphasizing the reliability and precision of their technology in facilitating such complex operations.

Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) Ministage

Huawei Brings World's First Commercial Triple Foldable Phone to MWC 2025.

At the MWC 2025 event, Huawei is showcasing its unique tri-fold phone, HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE DESIGN, as well as various other high-end, fashion-forward, and technology-driven flagship products. Attendees can visit dedicated experience zones for foldables, health & fitness, photography, and tools for creative work, and see how Huawei is applying the latest technologies to daily life.

Many have been particularly excited to see the Mate XT, the world's first commercial tri-fold smartphone. It features proprietary hinge and screen technologies that have allowed Huawei to build a phone where the screen folds inward on one hinge and outward on another. It's also equipped with a camera with a 10-size adjustable physical aperture. In the Huawei Consumer BG booth, a large screen utilizing naked-eye 3D effects further showcases the merits of this unique tri-fold phone. Also on display at the Consumer BG booth are the HUAWEI Mate 70 series phones, which boast an Ultra Chroma Camera that delivers unprecedented color accuracy. The Intelligence Scenario experience zone allows attendees to get their hands on features including Multi exposure and AI retouch. The Mate X6 area takes a novel approach by showcasing some of the innovative materials that go into the phone. Attendees are invited to cut ice with a sheet of graphene, to experience for themselves the amazing thermal conductivity of the material.

At MWC 2025, Huawei's Consumer Business Group (CBG) showcased a comprehensive ecosystem of consumer technology, demonstrating its commitment to seamless integration and intelligent experiences. This included a wide array of devices, from cutting-edge smartphones and versatile tablets to powerful PCs and innovative wearables. Complementing these hardware offerings were advanced audio products, reliable routers, and a diverse range of accessories, all designed to enhance user connectivity and productivity. Underpinning this ecosystem was the continued evolution of Huawei's software, with advancements in HarmonyOS 4, refinements to EMUI, and the enhanced capabilities of the Celia voice assistant, all working in concert to provide a fluid and intuitive user experience. Furthermore, Huawei emphasized its focus on business solutions, highlighting how its technologies can empower professionals and drive digital transformation across various industries.

Conclusion

My comprehensive tour of Huawei's presence at MWC 2025, encompassing the EBG Booth, CBG Ministage (Day 2), and 5G-A Core Summit (Day 3), revealed a consistent and compelling vision. It was clear that Huawei is driving a future where enterprise, consumer, and network technologies converge seamlessly, powered by AI and the Intelligent Cloud. From cutting-edge enterprise solutions to innovative consumer devices and advanced 5G-A core networks, Huawei demonstrated its commitment to enhancing user experiences and driving digital transformation. The synergy between these areas underscores Huawei's holistic approach to innovation, positioning the company as a key player in shaping the future of digital connectivity and intelligent services. Ultimately, the future of telecom networks lies in AI integration and the deployment of advanced 5.5G solutions, driving a fundamental shift towards techco business models. Huawei's strategic investment in an AI-Centric Network and a comprehensive cloud strategy demonstrates its ambition to be a leading force in the European telecom market by 2025. Their substantial presence at MWC, exemplified by the largest exhibition space, signifies Huawei’s dedication to providing robust infrastructure for future connectivity in the