In recent years, the company has transformed from a competent private-sector telecommunications company to “the muscle technology commander across the entire AI hardware and software stack.”
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Huawei has opened sourced two AI models – a move tech experts say will help companies on the black list of Americans continue to build their AI ecosystem and expand overseas.
Chinese tech giants Announced on Monday The open source of AI models in its Pangu family and some of its model reasoning techniques.
The action is consistent with others Chinese artificial intelligence players continue to promote open source development strategies. So is Baidu Open Source Large Language Model Series Ernie on Monday.
Tech experts told CNBC that Huawei’s latest announcement not only highlights how it consolidates itself as an open source LLM player, but how it strengthens its position throughout the AI value chain as it can overcome the AI AI chip export restrictions we lead.
In recent years, the company has transformed from a competent private-sector telecommunications company to “the muscle technology commander across the entire AI hardware and software stack.”
Huawei said in a Monday announcement that the open source measures proposed another key measure for Huawei’s “uplift ecosystem strategy” that would help accelerate AI adoption in “thousands of industries.”
The rising ecosystem refers to the AI product built around the company’s Ascend AI chip series, which is widely regarded as a major competitor in China, from the American chip giant Nvidia. NVIDIA is limited to selling its advanced products to China.
A Google-like strategy?
Pangu, which is available in open source, can test models and customize them according to their needs, said Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at Omdia. “This move is expected to inspire the use of other Huawei products,” he added.
According to experts, the coupling of Huawei’s pangu model with the company’s AI chips and related products gives the company a unique advantage, allowing it to optimize its AI solutions and applications.
Although competitors such as Baidu have LLMs with broad capabilities, Huawei focuses on specialized AI models in areas such as government, finance and manufacturing.
“Huawei is not as powerful as companies like DeepSeek and Baidu at the entire software level, but it doesn’t need to,” said Marc Einstein, research director at Counterpoint Research.
“Its goal is to ultimately use open source products to drive hardware sales, which is completely different from other models. It also works with DeepSeek, Baidu and others and will continue to do so,” he added.
Ray Wang, chief analyst at Constellation Research, said Chip-to-Model strategy is similar to Googlealso developing AI chips and AI models and other companies Gemma model.
Huawei’s announcement on Monday could also help its international ambitions. Huawei, and players like Zhipu AIhas been gradually entering new overseas markets.
In its announcement on Monday, Huawei invited developers, company partners and researchers around the world to download and use its new open source products to collect feedback and improvements.
“Huawei’s open source strategy will resonate well in developing countries, where companies are more sensitive to the prices of other products (Huawei) products,” Einstein said.
As part of its global strategy, the company has also been seeking to bring the latest AI Data Center Solutions Go to a new country.
