At Huawei Connect 2023 in Shanghai, China, Huawei invited business leaders, tech experts, partners, developers, and industry stakeholders to explore new possibilities for an intelligent future. While AI is inevitable and here to stay, Huawei has called to explore new opportunities for an intelligent future.

The main theme in the well-attended three-day event at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Hall and Shanghai World Expo Center was Accelerating Intelligent Transformation, which offers practical advice and references to help industries make the most of AI. 

At the event, Sabrina Meng, Huawei's Deputy Chairwoman, Rotating Chairwoman, and CFO, unveiled the company's All Intelligence strategy, describing the company's ongoing efforts to dive deep into foundational AI technologies and build a solid computing backbone for China – and another option for the world – to support a vast range of AI models and applications for all industries.

"Huawei is committed to building a solid computing backbone for China – and another option for the world," said Meng in her keynote. "We will keep strengthening the synergy between hardware, software, chips, edge, devices, and cloud to provide fertile ground for a thriving ecosystem. Our end goal is to help meet the diverse AI computing needs of different industries."

Meng then noted that Huawei wants to be at the forefront of the AI drive. "Going forward, Huawei will dive into the product and tech domains where we excel, and work closely with customers, partners, developers, and other stakeholders to provide cutting-edge, easy-to-use industry solutions. By working together, we can help promote greater digital security and trustworthiness, and accelerate intelligence across all industries."

For the past two decades, Huawei has worked with the industry to drive information and communications technology forward, first with its All IP strategy to support informatization, and then with its All Cloud strategy to support digitalization. As artificial intelligence gains steam, and its impact on industry continues to grow, Huawei's All Intelligence strategy is designed to help all industries make the most of new strategic opportunities presented by AI.

Key to this strategy is providing the massive amounts of computing power needed to train foundation models for different industries. 

David Wang, Huawei's Executive Director of the Board, Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, and President of the Enterprise BG, was also present at Huawei Connect 2023 to announce the launch of Huawei's new Atlas 900 SuperCluster. This new AI computing cluster, the latest offering in Huawei's Ascend series of computing products, makes use of a brand-new architecture that's optimized for training massive AI foundation models with over one trillion parameters. 

The Atlas 900 SuperCluster comes packed with Huawei's state-of-the-art Xinghe Network CloudEngine XH16800 switch. With high-density 800GE ports, the SuperCluster's two-layer switching network can connect up to 2,250 nodes per cluster – equivalent to 18,000 NPUs – without oversubscription.

"A new chapter of intelligent transformation is unfolding," Wang said. "We now stand at the threshold of a new and intelligent world, with vast opportunities and challenges ahead of us. We need to work together, dig deep into industry-specific scenarios, and build a solid computing backbone to power countless new AI models and applications. Together, we can help all industries go intelligent, and help them do it faster."

Wang also launched nine new intelligent industry solutions based on Huawei's intelligent transformation reference architecture. A joint effort between Huawei, its customers and partners, these solutions are designed to meet the specific needs of different industries, including finance, government, manufacturing, electric power, and railways.

He then announced the release of the company's new white paper, Accelerating Intelligent Transformation. It's a collection of case studies and best practices aimed at helping all industries hit the ground running as they move to embrace new forms of intelligence.

Also during the well-attended event, Huawei's top executives released a reference architecture for driving intelligent transformation at this year's event and related products and solutions.