China Mobile and Huawei's AI Core Network Wins Best AI Innovation in Asia Award at GSMA's Asia Mobile Awards

[Shanghai, China, June 19, 2025] During MWC Shanghai 2025, China Mobile and Huawei were honored with GSMA's Best AI Innovation in Asia Award for its industry-first AI Core Network solution. This accolade highlights the industry's recognition of China Mobile and Huawei's technological innovation and business practices in core network and AI, cementing its role as a pioneer in the mobile AI era.

AI Core Network wins the Best AI Innovation in Asia Award

The convergence of 5G-A and AI technology heralds the era of mobile AI, allowing for exponentially more connections between people, homes, and industries. This evolution drives core networks to expand the boundaries of connectivity, and meet the service demands of individuals, families, enterprises, and AI agents.

To that end, China Mobile and Huawei have taken the lead in introducing AI to the core network, to accommodate intelligent applications with intelligent networks. The AI Core Network develops in two phases. The first phase is to build a 5G-A intelligent core network with AI agents, greatly improving the intelligent capabilities of the network, and allowing intelligent services, experiences, and O&M to be implemented. This phase also introduces computing-network convergence to address the computing power and energy challenges faced by user devices. The second phase is to reconstruct the core network as AI native, evolving into an Agentic Core. The Agentic Core can be self-generating, self-optimizing, and self-maintaining. It can dynamically adapt to diverse, real-time personalized service requirements.

As a frontrunner of service intelligence, New Calling has been put into large-scale commercial use in China, providing innovative services such as Visualized Voice Calling, Fun Calling, and Real-time Translation. For network intelligence, the Intelligent Personalized Experience (IPE) solution is commercially deployed across multiple provinces in China. IPE realizes service awareness, user awareness, and network awareness, helping operators shift from traffic-based to experience-based monetization. O&M intelligence has been integrated into operators' production systems. This has allowed the reshaping of O&M models, and greatly enhanced operations, maintenance, and customer experiences. China Mobile Zhejiang branch has pioneered the commercial use of AI agents for fault management and complaint handling. China Mobile has also worked with Huawei to develop a low-carbon core network through hardware-software collaboration, to achieve E2E system-level energy efficiency.

George Gao, President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line, stated that "Integrating AI into the core network is a defining feature of the mobile AI era. Beyond this, the AI Core Network will provide a fertile ground for innovative services, accelerating the shift from an intelligent connectivity of things, to an intelligent connectivity of AI agents. Huawei will work with China Mobile and industry partners to develop more innovative services, empower more industries, and create greater business value."

MWC Shanghai 2025 will be held from June 18 to June 20 in Shanghai, China. During the event, Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions in Hall N1 of the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC).

The commercial adoption of 5G-Advanced is accelerating in 2025. Huawei collaborates with global carriers, industry experts, and opinion leaders to explore how innovations in AI can be used to reshape telecom services, infrastructure, and operations to generate new revenue sources and accelerate the transition towards an intelligent world.

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