Huawei Pitches AI-Native Core for 900 Billion Agents by 2035
Beijing – October 15, 2026 -- Huawei projects that the number of AI agents worldwide could reach 900 billion by 2035, roughly 100 times the global population, and argues that mobile core networks must be rebuilt to handle them.
The projection comes from Huawei's Intelligent World 2035 report. The company says core network architecture must be able to support long-term growth in new connections and services. It describes the shift as a move from transporting data bits to enabling task-oriented tokens, with agentic services becoming typical mobile network scenarios as AI terminals and applications spread.
Huawei defines three agentic service scenarios for experience assurance
Agent Over New Radio (AoNR) targets task latency. Portable AI devices are limited by computing power, battery capacity, size, and cost, so end-to-end task latency must stay below demanding thresholds.