Huawei Xiao Degang: The second half of AI is a huge benefit for data and storage At the Huawei China Partner Conference 2026, Xiao Degang, Vice President of Huawei's Data Storage Product Line, stated that the second half of AI is data, which is a huge benefit for storage. At the application layer, AI has entered the specialization of thousands of industry driven agents, requiring comprehensive evolution of storage in "knowledge base, memory base, and data security"; At the model level, the context exponentially increases, and in the post LLM era, world models have become a cutting-edge hotspot. The growth of their data volume will be much higher than that of large language models, and there are many opportunities for data storage, which puts forward extreme demands on storage capacity, bandwidth, latency, and other performance. At the infrastructure level, from the cost center to the profit center, it is necessary to store and enhance computing power around the token economy. At the processor level, from CPU centric to xPU centric, higher requirements have been placed on the IO concurrency capability for storage. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)