At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei Cloud announced a comprehensive suite of enterprise AI products and services designed to build an open agentic cloud. Dr. Peter Zhou, Director of the Board at Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivered a keynote titled "The Agentic Cloud for the Agentic World: Build Together, Grow Together," outlining the company's strategy to strengthen the silicon bedrock on the cloud and reinforce the foundation for agentic AI.
The global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS) marks a key step in this strategy. AICS is built on a five-level fast recovery mechanism with full-chain observability, supporting over 40 days of stable training on cloud and fault recovery within 10 minutes. It delivers 20% higher token throughput than the previous generation, thanks to coordinated optimization across scheduling, cache, and algorithms. The service will be commercially available in China on September 30 and in international markets on November 30.
Huawei Cloud also highlighted its Agentic Model as a Service (MaaS) platform, which brings together diverse models, enabling developers to invoke state-of-the-art models from leading providers with one click and no deployment required. MiniMax demonstrated its advanced multimodal model, which, combined with Huawei Cloud, delivers open, cutting-edge multimodal capabilities. The AgentArts enterprise-grade agent platform already serves over 100 enterprises, and the Industry AI Foundry has accumulated more than 1,000 industry assets, with over 1,000 projects deployed.
To address the needs of long-horizon agent tasks for memory capacity and access efficiency, Huawei Cloud introduced the Context Memory Storage (CMS) solution. It provides a petabyte-scale memory space, twice the storage capacity of comparable industry products, and supports high-speed terabyte-scale memory reads with 50% higher performance than industry peers.
Huawei Cloud is advancing its enterprise-grade agent platform through a dual approach: commercial and open source. Built on AgentArts and its open-source edition openJiuwen, the platform opens up more than 5,000 general Model Context Protocol (MCP) assets and over 1,000 industry-specific MCP assets. The platform has served more than 100 customers, including the Shenzhen Longgang District Government, China Southern Power Grid, Guangzhou Laboratory, the University of Science and Technology of China, Kingsoft Office, Sichuan Yingu Carbon Sink Renewable Resources Co., Ltd., Changsha Thunder Cloud Network Technology Co., Ltd., and KingMed Diagnostics. At the event, Kingsoft Office shared its implementation practices based on Huawei Cloud's agent platform, building vertical office agents deployed across finance and government.
AgentArts will be commercially available in markets outside China on December 30. The openJiuwen open-source community has surpassed 50,000 stars and 3.29 million downloads. Together with Chinasoft International, iSoftStone Group, and Beiming Software, Huawei Cloud has launched partner commercial editions to help partners thrive on its silicon bedrock.
The Industry AI Foundry now includes five industry-specific zones: Smart Healthcare, Embodied AI, AI for Science (AI4S), Smart Manufacturing, and Smart Finance. Two new zones have been launched: Smart Government and AI Hardware. The Smart Government Zone has brought together 24 founding partners, covering government office operations, public services, urban governance, and industry development. The AI Hardware Zone has onboarded 15 core partners, covering more than 20 device types, including AI glasses, AI toys, and AI recording cards, along with over 10 scenario templates and more than 110 scenario skills.
These announcements signal Huawei Cloud's commitment to building an open agentic cloud with open infrastructure to power AI, an open platform to support enterprises in effectively developing and using agents, and an open industry ecosystem to accelerate AI adoption at scale. By providing comprehensive tools and platforms, Huawei Cloud aims to move forward with customers and partners to build and grow together in the agentic era. For more information, visit HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 online.
