Huawei Cloud Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure

SHENZHEN, China, July 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Gartner^®, a leading global technology research and consulting firm, has released its 2026 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure report. Huawei Cloud has been named a Leader in the report, underscoring its recognized leadership in the global cloud AI infrastructure market.

The report evaluates leading cloud service providers worldwide based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Building on its success in China, Huawei Cloud is extending its proven capabilities to customers around the world through flexible strategies tailored to diverse enterprise needs. Huawei Cloud's core strengths include:

• Software-hardware-chip synergy and vertical integration. Huawei Cloud combines deep vertical integration with system-level innovation to drive the evolution of next-generation AI infrastructure. Its high-speed UnifiedBus network enables unified resource pooling across CPUs, NPUs, memory, storage, and DPUs. Powered by UnifiedBus, the next-generation AI Cluster Service (AICS) supports cloud supernodes with thousands of NPUs, as well as ultra-large clusters scaling to hundreds of thousands of NPUs. The Elastic Memory Service (EMS) delivers cache hit rates of up to 95% for ultra-long-context inference. CCE Volcano provides topology-aware scheduling and distributed inference acceleration across AI container clusters, significantly improving the performance and efficiency of large-scale enterprise AI workloads.
• Comprehensive AI products and solutions. Huawei Cloud offers a complete AI portfolio spanning AI infrastructure, model training and inference via ModelArts, AI-ready data processing with AI DataLake, data governance through DataArts, and full-stack AI security. This comprehensive portfolio empowers enterprises to manage the entire AI lifecycle—from large-scale training to production-grade inference—while significantly reducing deployment and operational complexity and ensuring robust, end-to-end AI security. Huawei Cloud has also launched its Industry AI Foundry, designed to accelerate AI adoption across industries by fostering ecosystem partnerships and helping customers deploy AI to solve real-world challenges. To date, it has launched dedicated zones for smart healthcare, embodied AI, and more.
• Powerful hybrid cloud AI deployment capabilities. Guided by its Cloud + Data + AI strategy, Huawei Cloud Stack redefines hybrid cloud for the agentic era through its comprehensive portfolio, including HCF, HCS, and HCSD. Whether organizations are looking to accelerate cloud migration, modernize by fully embracing cloud-native architectures, or build industry clouds and national sovereign clouds, Huawei Cloud Stack can deliver the solution best suited to their needs.

Huawei Cloud's recognition as a Leader highlights both its technological leadership and its growing influence in the AI infrastructure market. Since the end of 2025, Huawei Cloud has rapidly integrated its business and R&D resources around an AI-first strategy, while continuing to invest heavily in AI infrastructure to build the foundation for AI innovation. By introducing a new generation of AI infrastructure offerings, including AICS, Agentic Memory Storage (AMS), and unified general-purpose and AI compute scheduling, Huawei Cloud has significantly strengthened its competitive edge in software-hardware-chip synergy. Combining this foundation with the ModelArts platform, the AgentArts enterprise AI agent platform, and the Industry AI Foundry, Huawei Cloud is accelerating AI adoption across key industries such as finance and healthcare, ushering in a new era of AI-powered industry transformation.

Source: Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure, 6 July 2026

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Huawei Cloud Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure

SEOUL, South Korea, July 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping medical aesthetics, and hair restoration is undergoing a significant technological transformation. At the 14th World Congress for Hair Research (WCHR 2026), Puncture Robotic attracted international attention with the debut of its HAIRO Hair Transplant Robot and its vision for AI-powered hair transplantation.

As China's first NMPA Class III-certified hair transplant robot, HAIRO integrates artificial intelligence, computer vision and robotic automation across the hair restoration workflow, from hair assessment and surgical planning to robotic execution and postoperative management.

Puncture Robotic's AI-powered ecosystem begins with an intelligent hair detection device that measures and classifies a patient's degree of hair loss. An AI mini-program can then generate personalized visual simulations to help patients better understand potential post-transplant outcomes.

In the operating room, HAIRO supports physicians with AI-assisted preoperative planning and real-time procedural adjustment. Its dynamic machine-learning algorithm analyzes information collected during follicular extraction and adjusts operating parameters according to differences in follicular structure and scalp conditions.

The system combines 20-megapixel binocular cameras with millisecond-level image-processing algorithms. According to Puncture Robotic, it can achieve sub-surface positioning accuracy of up to 0.1 millimeters, supporting precise follicular-unit extraction while helping reduce damage to surrounding tissue.

One of HAIRO's core technologies is its proprietary "Single-Hair Skipping" algorithm. The system is designed to identify and prioritize multi-hair follicular units while selectively skipping single-hair units when appropriate. Company data indicate that the system can achieve a multi-hair follicular-unit extraction rate of up to 95%.

By prioritizing follicular units containing multiple hairs, the technology may help physicians improve visual density while reducing the number of grafts required from the donor area.

HAIRO can process up to 2,400 follicles per hour and supports extraction needles ranging from 0.7 millimeters to 1.0 millimeter.

"I was impressed by the progress robotic hair transplantation technology has made," said Dr. Guanzhou Zhu, Founder of DCDC Hair Transplant Hospital. "The system's speed, stability and ability to operate with ultra-fine needles demonstrate its potential to become an effective clinical partner for experienced surgeons."

Rather than replacing physicians, HAIRO is designed to assist with repetitive and precision-intensive stages of surgery, allowing surgeons to focus more closely on treatment planning, aesthetic design and patient care.

According to Puncture Robotic, the system maintains a follicular-unit damage rate below 7.5% under specified operating conditions. Its ultra-fine needle system is also designed to reduce tissue disruption and bleeding, potentially supporting a smoother postoperative recovery.

Puncture Robotic is also preparing to introduce a long-hair extraction version of HAIRO. The upcoming system is designed to perform follicular-unit extraction without requiring patients to fully shave the donor area, addressing a common concern for patients seeking a more discreet treatment and recovery experience.

Following a recent multi-million-dollar Series B financing round led by a globally leading AI technology company, Puncture Robotic is advancing product development, international expansion and regulatory pathways for FDA clearance and CE certification.

Through HAIRO, Puncture Robotic aims to support a more standardized, data-driven and physician-led approach to intelligent hair restoration.

About Puncture Robotic
Puncture Robotic is a pioneer in AI-driven surgical robotics and medical aesthetics. Its flagship product, HAIRO, is a globally leading hair transplant robot and the world's first end-to-end AI-driven robotic solution for hair restoration.

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