Huawei’s new computing cluster, world’s first AI agent phone to debut at China AI summit

The coming World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is set to feature major new product releases, such as Huawei-technologies" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="15073" data-entity-type="organization">Huawei Technologies’ next-generation computing cluster, as China doubles down on AI in the global technology race.This year’s WAIC, the ninth since 2018 and running from July 17 to 20 in Shanghai, would include the first physical display of Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPoD, Tang Wenkan, director of the Shanghai-municipal-commission-of-economy-and-informatisation" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="160328" data-entity-type="organization">Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatisation, said at a press briefing on Tuesday.Huawei initially unveiled the computing cluster, powered by 8,192 Ascend neural processing unit (NPU) cards, last year. The product is optimised for AI neural networks and machine learning tasks and applications.