At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei Cloud unveiled a comprehensive suite of enterprise AI products and services aimed at accelerating the adoption of agentic AI across industries. 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," announcing the global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS) and highlighting the company's strategy to strengthen the silicon bedrock on the cloud and reinforce the foundation for agentic AI. The move matters because it addresses critical infrastructure challenges that have hindered large-scale AI deployment, such as training stability, fault recovery, and memory efficiency, making AI more reliable and cost-effective for enterprises.
The latest 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. Alongside AICS, the Context Memory Storage (CMS) solution provides petabyte-scale memory space, twice the storage capacity of comparable products, and supports high-speed terabyte-scale memory reads with 50% higher performance than industry peers. These advancements are crucial for long-horizon agent tasks that require efficient memory access and capacity, enabling more sophisticated AI applications in real-world production environments.
Huawei Cloud also highlighted its Agentic Model as a Service (MaaS) platform, which brings together diverse models, allowing developers to invoke state-of-the-art models from leading providers with just 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, 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, having built vertical office agents by integrating the agent platform with WPS 365 Document Center and WPS Comate, now deployed across finance and government sectors. The platform opens up more than 5,000 general Model Context Protocol (MCP) assets and over 1,000 industry-specific MCP assets, making it easier for enterprises to develop, use, and manage agents. AgentArts will be commercially available outside China on December 30, and the openJiuwen open-source community has surpassed 50,000 stars and 3.29 million downloads. Huawei Cloud has also launched partner commercial editions with Chinasoft International, iSoftStone Group, and Beiming Software, helping partners thrive on its silicon bedrock.
The Industry AI Foundry has accumulated more than 1,000 industry assets with over 1,000 projects deployed, and now includes two new zones: Smart Government Zone and AI Hardware Zone. The Smart Government Zone has 24 founding partners covering government office operations, public services, urban governance, and industry development. The AI Hardware Zone has onboarded 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, taken together, are building a thriving AI ecosystem on the cloud. From infrastructure and enterprise-grade agent platforms to industry ecosystems, Huawei Cloud is committed 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. Ultimately, Huawei Cloud looks to move forward with customers and partners to build and grow together in the agentic era. Themed Advancing the Agentic World, HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 will delve into AI across strategy, technology, and ecosystems, running from September 17 to 19 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center and Shanghai Expo Center. For more information, visit HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 online.
