Huawei heir-apparent Meng Wanzhou sets AI as the Chinese giant’s business focus in the next decade despite US sanctions
Meng Wanzhou, rotating chairwoman of US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies, said the telecoms giant would embrace a new “all intelligence” strategy to transform itself into a key provider of computing power to support China’s artificial intelligence (AI) development.
While Meng did not talk about specific products in her speech at the Huawei Connect summit in Shanghai on Wednesday, the heir-apparent of the company founded by her father Ren Zhengfei stressed that it aimed to contribute to China’s technological progress as a key infrastructure provider to accelerate the “intelligent transformation” of thousands of traditional industries.
Huawei will offer “an alternative choice for the world”, Meng said, without elaborating.
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