Huawei Cloud champions public cloud as key to AI

Huawei Technologies Co is stepping up efforts to promote the development of public cloud as the key to boosting AI productivity and offering inclusive services.

Zhou Yuefeng, Huawei director and CEO of Huawei Cloud, called for accelerating public cloud adoption as a cornerstone of AI development.

"Public cloud, with its intensive construction advantages, aligns well with the current trend of large-scale efficiency," he said.

Zhou said that AI development should go beyond big enterprises and achieve universal benefits — making public cloud the best infrastructure for SMEs and research institutions to access advanced computing power.

He stressed that a public cloud encompasses not just public cloud forms, but also diverse models — including shared enterprise alliances and government-exclusive cloud, enabling "good governance, public benefit, and industrial prosperity" through investment intensive sharing of resources.

Chen Chun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, noted that 2026 marks the year for AI agents to take off.

"Cloud has become the only mainstream vehicle for large-scale AI implementation, and public cloud has risen to a national innovation infrastructure in the intelligent era," Chen said.

Hu Yuhai, president of public cloud business at Huawei, revealed that Huawei Cloud has collaborated with customers and partners to address challenges across over 30 industries and 500 scenarios.

Hu emphasized that the core metric for AI infrastructure is token production efficiency. Based on its Agentic Infra built with the Lingqu intelligent computing cluster, Huawei Cloud has achieved a throughput of 5 million tokens per second on a thousand-card cluster, supporting a wide range of models.