[Shenzhen, China, September 16, 2025] Huawei released two new white papers today called the Intelligent World 2035 Report and Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index 2025 Report. In his release video, titled “Explore the Unknown. Shape the Future.”, Huawei’s Executive Director of the Board David Wang explained that the reports are intended to serve as guides for quantifying and envisioning the future of digital and intelligent transformation. The reports include descriptions of key megatrends in technology that will likely occur over the next 10 years, and the impact they and other emerging technologies will have on multiple industries, including education, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and electric power.
Wang said, “Every leap forward in civilization has been paired with technological exploration. The drive to explore is a core part of human nature. It encourages us to push the boundaries of knowledge and technology. And today, it is leading us toward a more intelligent world. Generative AI is opening up possibilities that we couldn’t imagine before. So, we must continue looking towards the future and build new scientific visions and assumptions.”
The Intelligent World 2035 report: 10 tech megatrends will bring us to the intelligent world of 2035
Over the past two years, Huawei’s research team hosted over 200 workshops, discussed in-depth with over 100 experts, scholars, customers, and partners from around the world to create the Intelligent World 2035 report. The report, referencing data and methodologies from trusted sources like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, describes 10 tech megatrends that Huawei believes will guide intelligent transformation over the next decade.
- Megatrend 1: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be the largest driver of transformation. Integrating AI with the physical is essential to achieve AGI, which will lead to a technological singularity.
- Megatrend 2: As large models grow, AI agents will transform from simple execution tools into decision-making partners and drive revolutionary changes across industries.
- Megatrend 3: Human-AI programming will reshape software development, allowing people to focus more on top-level designs and creative thinking, while AI efficiently handles repetitive coding tasks.
- Megatrend 4: Human-computer interaction will move from graphical user interfaces to natural language systems and multimodal user interfaces that deliver full sensory experiences. These interfaces will allow users to interact with the digital world through voice commands, gestures, and more.
- Megatrend 5: Mobile apps will transition away from being isolated function units and become service nodes driven by AI agents. This will allow AI agents to call on other services with only simple commands from users.
- Megatrend 6: Breakthroughs in critical technologies like world models will enable the development Level 4 or higher-level autonomous vehicles that will serve as a mobile third space.
- Megatrend 7: Global computing capacity will increase 100,000-fold by 2035 by moving beyond the von Neumann architecture. This will reshape the entire computing ecosystem as ground-breaking innovations are made in four key areas: semiconductor materials and devices, process techniques, computing architectures, and computing paradigms.
- Megatrend 8: Agentic AI will drive paradigm shifts in data storage, as AI storage demand will increase by 500 times over what it is in 2025, and will eventually account for more than 70% of global total storage.
- Megatrend 9: Nine billion people will become connected to 900 billion agents, driving the evolution of the mobile Internet into an agentic Internet.
- Megatrend 10: Global data centers are expected to consume about 1.5 trillion kWh of electricity by 2035, which means energy demand will hinder rapid growth until AI is fully incorporated into the core of new energy systems. AI will allow energy to be managed by tokens, enabling more dynamic and efficient grids that help the world will shift away fast from fossil fuels to renewables. With this change, wind and solar will account for 50% of the global energy mix by 2035.
The Intelligent World 2035 report also provides snapshots of how Huawei predicts AI will be seen in daily life, homes, businesses, and the environment by 2035. It claims that AI will help prevent over 80% of chronic diseases by turning passive health monitoring into proactive prevention, and that over 90% of homes in China will have intelligent robots. Other technological advancements that will be seen in people’s homes include 3D holograms of objects from virtual world projected directly into living spaces.
In business, AI-powered perception, analytics, decision making, and action systems are also predicted to drive significant disruption as AI agents will power autonomous systems that support organizational decision making and transform production processes. By 2035, AI is forecasted to be applied by over 85% of companies and improve productivity by 60%.
The report additionally emphasizes the importance of principles like “AI for All” and “AI for Good” to future AI governance, as they will play an important role in ensuring the intelligent world created by these new technologies remains people-centric.
Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index 2025 Report: A quantitative reference for digital economies based on the three digital factors of production
The digital economy is growing rapidly thanks to recent developments in AI, and, to date, over 70 countries have released some kind of AI strategy. In light of these developments, Huawei worked with experts in economics, social sciences, and ICT to upgrade its previous Global Digitalization Index (GDI) which measured the maturity of different countries’ ICT industries. This new Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index (GDII) factors in a number of new economic developments to provide a more comprehensive view of how the digital economy can be leveraged to benefit from AI.
The report is rooted in the company’s new digital production factor framework, which maps the three core production factors from classical economic theory – land, labor, and capital – to digital counterparts: data, ICT talent, and digital and intelligent technologies. The comprehensive measurement model created on top of this framework includes a number of new and updated indicators such as data scale and application level, network connectivity breadth and quality, computing and storage capacity and efficacy, ICT skills, and innovation ecosystems. The goal of the report is to not only measure ICT infrastructure, but also provide quantitative insights into the technology application, talent, and ecosystems countries need to grow their digital economies. The exact strengths and challenges of individual digital economies vary from country to country, and so this report aims to provide guidance on how to more effectively formulate targeted industry policy in the face of massive industry disruptors like AI.
Wang concluded the release by saying, “Let’s explore the unknown; let’s shape the future. These two reports will shed light on how countries should advance their digital and intelligent transformation and develop their digital economy. Together with all our customers and partners, we will innovate to unlock new opportunities for all, so that everyone can benefit from the digital economy. Let’s keep moving forward to create that better intelligent future!
For more information, please visit https://www.huawei.com/en/intelligent-world
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