JAKARTA - Huawei officially released the HarmonyOS 7 beta version for developers. This new operating system is an important step for Huawei to enter deeper into the era of artificial intelligence-based smartphones.
Based on a report by China Daily, quoted Tuesday, June 16, HarmonyOS 7 brings spatial computing capabilities and major updates for the AI agent era. AI agents are intelligent systems that can understand commands, take steps, and help users perform tasks.
Yu Chengdong, Executive Director of Huawei and Chairman of the Terminal Business Group, said the number of devices running HarmonyOS 6 has exceeded 66 million units.
According to Yu, this achievement makes HarmonyOS the second largest smartphone operating system in China.
"This milestone means that the HarmonyOS ecosystem has entered a new phase in terms of user scale, moving from technical validation to large-scale expansion," said Yu.
He said the HarmonyOS ecosystem now has 11 million registered developers.
Unlike systems that simply add AI shortcuts, Huawei says HarmonyOS 7 is rebuilt with artificial intelligence at its core. Harmony Intelligence is now moved to an agent-based architecture, with the Xiaoyi voice assistant as the center of the operating system's intelligence.
Huawei aims for HarmonyOS to be the first operating system in the industry that is completely reconstructed by AI.
In terms of applications, Huawei stated that the number of applications and services on the HarmonyOS AppGallery has exceeded 400,000. More than 23,000 of them have been adapted for HarmonyOS.
Cross-device products are also being developed, ranging from PCs, smart screens, smart watches, to vehicle systems. Huawei wants a more seamless connected user experience between mobile phones, tablets, wearable devices, computers, and cars.
At the Harmony Developer Conference 2026 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, Huawei also open sourced the Pangu large language model, namely openPangu 2.0. The largest version has 505 billion parameters.
Parameters are the size of components in an AI model that help the system recognize patterns and generate answers.
Yu acknowledged that Huawei faces computing power limitations.
"Most of our computing power is used to support the needs of other domestic companies, so the resources that are left for us are very limited," Yu said, as quoted by China Daily.
According to Yu, very large AI models require high computing power and costs. Therefore, Huawei chose to develop a model with hundreds of billions of parameters to pursue better computing efficiency.
Yu also said that he was reassigned to lead the development of Huawei's large language model since before October 1 last year.
"I will lead the team to chase and surpass, from number one in China to number one in the world. In my dictionary, there is no second place, only the first," Yu said.
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