Huawei launched the HarmonyOS 7 Developer Beta on Friday, June 12, at HDC 2026, its annual developer conference in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, introducing new tools aimed at expanding the company's homegrown operating system.

Yu Chengdong, executive director, chairman of the investment review board and chairman of the board of directors at Consumer BG, delivers a speech at the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC 2026) in Dongguan, South China's Guangdong Province, on Friday, June 12. (Photo by Lin Rui)

The release includes HarmonyOS Agent Framework 2.0, a platform for building AI-powered software agents – programs that can carry out tasks autonomously – as well as HarmonyOS Spatial Computing, which supports applications that blend digital content with the physical world, and openPangu 2.0, an updated version of Huawei's large language model.

Huawei said HarmonyOS 7 adds system-level AI tools designed to help developers build smarter applications. The company said its HarmonyOS ecosystem now runs on more than 66 million devices, has more than 11 million registered developers and offers more than 400,000 apps and services.

This year's conference centered on integrating artificial intelligence into the operating system.

(Produced by Lin Rui, Zhang Shenyuan and intern Song Qingzheng)