Huawei Cloud unveiled a comprehensive set of enterprise AI products and services at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, marking a significant push to build what it calls an “open agentic cloud” to support the next wave of AI adoption. 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 its cloud infrastructure and platform offerings for agentic AI.
Central to the announcement is the global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS), designed to provide a robust foundation for agentic AI. According to the company, the new 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 markets outside China on November 30.
Huawei Cloud also introduced the Context Memory Storage (CMS) solution to address memory capacity and access efficiency for long-horizon agent tasks. CMS offers 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.
The Agentic Model as a Service (MaaS) platform was highlighted for bringing together diverse models, enabling developers to invoke state-of-the-art models from leading providers with one click and no deployment required. At the event, MiniMax demonstrated its advanced multimodal model, which, combined with Huawei Cloud, delivers open, cutting-edge multimodal capabilities.
Huawei Cloud’s enterprise-grade agent platform, AgentArts, and its open-source edition openJiuwen, now open up more than 5,000 general Model Context Protocol (MCP) assets and over 1,000 industry-specific MCP assets. The platform has already 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, and KingMed Diagnostics. Kingsoft Office shared its implementation practices, integrating the agent platform with WPS 365 Document Center and WPS Comate to build vertical office agents deployed across finance and government. AgentArts will be commercially available outside China on December 30. The openJiuwen community has surpassed 50,000 stars and 3.29 million downloads, and Huawei Cloud has launched partner commercial editions with Chinasoft International, iSoftStone Group, and Beiming Software.
The Industry AI Foundry has accumulated more than 1,000 industry assets and over 1,000 deployed projects across five zones: Smart Healthcare, Embodied AI, AI for Science (AI4S), Smart Manufacturing, and Smart Finance. Two new zones were launched: Smart Government Zone, with 24 founding partners covering government office operations, public services, urban governance, and industry development; and AI Hardware Zone, with 15 core partners covering over 20 device types including AI glasses, AI toys, and AI recording cards, along with more than 10 scenario templates and over 110 scenario skills.
These efforts underscore Huawei Cloud’s commitment to an open ecosystem, from infrastructure to platforms to industry solutions, aiming to accelerate AI adoption at scale. The announcements position Huawei Cloud as a key player in the emerging agentic AI market, providing tools and infrastructure that could lower barriers for enterprises seeking to develop and deploy AI agents. For more information, visit HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 online.
