The Huawei company has published two new research reports that analyze the evolution towards a smart world and the main challenges posed by the expansion of agentic AI: “Smart World 2035: turning vision into action” and “Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index (GDII) 2026”. The brand has presented both in an online event held under the motto “Act today. Shape tomorrow”, in which it has shared its vision on technological evolution and the role of artificial intelligence in the transformation of the industry and society.
The report “Smart World 2035: turning vision into action” presents, for the first time, ten key lines of action to build a smart world, systematically addressing the main challenges of the era of agentic AI and providing the sector with a practical roadmap to move towards this scenario.
According to the report, as AI is expanding from the digital world to the physical world, it is moving from being an isolated tool to being progressively integrated into the fundamental processes of operations and society. This evolution is transforming the logic of industries and accelerating transformation in all sectors.
David Wang, vice chairman of the board of directors and rotating president of Huawei, points out in the report that “agent AI is a key variable in this transformation” and highlights that, for AI to redefine operating paradigms, the foundations of competition and industrial dynamics, a series of fundamental challenges must be addressed.
According to Wang, the report “Smart World 2035: turning vision into action” is based on the changes driven by the current AI revolution, analyzes the challenges associated with this transformation and offers practical recommendations to move towards an agent-centric world, based on the development of an intelligent infrastructure capable of transforming user experience and operational paradigms.
The transition to an agent-centric world
The report explains that agentic AI is driving the transition from a digital world focused on applications towards a world centered on agents, capable of continuously perceiving their environment, reasoning and making decisions autonomously, using tools dynamically and interacting with humans in real time.
Each of these capabilities involves massive token generation and high-frequency token flow. Huawei predicts that by 2035, global annual token consumption will increase 100,000-fold, with traffic generated by agents accounting for more than 90%. This evolution will mean a demand for computing, network and cloud infrastructure much higher than that required by traditional Internet applications.
To respond to these challenges, Huawei identifies ten priority lines of action
- Develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) with autonomous cognitive capabilities applicable to any task, driving advances in linguistic intelligence, embodied intelligence and scientific intelligence.
- Multiply the capacity of computing clusters by 100 and reduce the cost of agent tasks by 1,000, through advances in chip-level computing and the evolution towards SuperPoD computing systems.
- Create new storage and memory systems with causal precision and reliable traceability that allow us to evolve from data to knowledge and memory.
- Build an intelligent connectivity infrastructure focused on experience, with artificial intelligence integrated into communication systems.
- Explore Tau’s Scaling Law, developing new chip design methodologies and tools that allow for joint optimization of latency and energy efficiency.
- Develop an operating system for agents that allows them to evolve from taking advantage of the environment towards autonomous evolution, with coordination, execution, memory and connectivity capabilities.
- Define a new paradigm for device intelligence, enabling intelligent services adapted to different devices and scenarios.
- Promote the evolution of intelligent driving, through vehicles capable of self-learning and with higher levels of safety.
- Overcome thermal and power limits to expand the computing capacity of AI data centers.
- Guarantee the security and privacy of the intelligent world, protecting systems based on autonomous agents.
The report notes that addressing these challenges requires developing an end-to-end intelligent infrastructure focused on tokens, encompassing the generation, distribution, consumption and security of these elements.
This approach involves the creation of SuperPoDs and open ecosystems to improve efficiency in token production, the development of intelligent connectivity infrastructures that guarantee continuous flows, and the deployment of native cloud platforms for agentic AI that accelerate its adoption in different sectors.
Huawei concludes the report with five initiatives to advance towards this goal: adopt a long-term vision, maintain a people-centered approach, promote technology at the service of the common good, promote openness and collaboration, and adopt a systemic perspective that allows translating technological innovation into industrial progress.
Moving towards a smart economy
During the event, Huawei also presented the “Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index (GDII) 2026”, prepared together with the Institute of Economics of Tsinghua University, with the aim of offering countries development paths towards a smart economy.
The report predicts that artificial intelligence will generate more than US$27 trillion in cumulative economic value over the next five years. Likewise, it estimates that global investment in digital and smart infrastructure will grow at a compound annual rate of 19.14%, exceeding US$4 trillion in 2030.
The study analyzes the digital and intelligent evolution of 90 countries and examines the fundamental factors of production of the digital and intelligent world: data, ICT talent and digital and intelligent technologies.
Furthermore, the report classifies the development of countries into three stages: “Builder”, “Adopter” and “Pioneer”, providing references so that policy makers can identify priority areas and define development trajectories adapted to their circumstances.
The report classifies the development of countries into three stages: “Builder”, “Adopter” and “Pioneer”.
GDII 2026 highlights that the integration of networks, computing and storage constitutes an essential basis to drive industrial modernization. At the same time, it emphasizes that there is no single model to advance towards the intelligent era, but rather that each country must define its own path based on its capabilities and objectives.
In the words of David Wang collected in the foreword of the report “Smart World 2035: turning vision into action”, “visions are described in words, but they are measured in actions.” Huawei thus reaffirms its commitment to collaborating with customers and partners around the world to convert current technological advances into concrete steps towards the Smart World 2035.
