The company introduced a beta version of HarmonyOS 6 at its annual developer conference on Friday, highlighting new features such as AI agents. Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, said the update was now available to developers, but did not specify a launch date for consumers.
Huawei has installed HarmonyOS 5 on more than 40 device models, with over 8 million developers registered in its ecosystem and more than 30,000 apps and “atomic services” – mini programs that run without installation – now available, according to Yu.
“But the top 5,000 apps accounted for 99.9 per cent of consumer time spent” on Huawei devices, he said.
The company also announced the HarmonyOS Agent Framework, a toolkit that will allow developers to create AI agents – programs that can perform tasks on behalf of users – without the need to build or train foundation models.
