At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei Cloud announced a suite of new enterprise AI products and services designed to support the development and deployment of AI agents at scale. 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 the agentic era.
Central to the announcement is the global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS), which Huawei Cloud describes as a key step in reinforcing the foundation for agentic AI. 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, achieved through 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 its Context Memory Storage (CMS) solution, designed to address the memory capacity and access efficiency needs of long-horizon agent tasks. CMS provides a petabyte-scale memory space with twice the storage capacity of comparable industry products and supports high-speed terabyte-scale memory reads with 50% higher performance than industry peers. These infrastructure advancements fall under Huawei Cloud's Agentic Infra paradigm, which has already served over 3,500 customers.
The company's Agentic Model as a Service (MaaS) platform brings 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.
On the platform side, Huawei Cloud is advancing its enterprise-grade agent platform through both commercial and open-source approaches. Built on AgentArts and its open-source edition openJiuwen, the platform offers more than 5,000 general Model Context Protocol (MCP) assets and over 1,000 industry-specific MCP assets. It has already served over 100 customers, including the Shenzhen Longgang District Government, China Southern Power Grid, and Kingsoft Office. Kingsoft Office shared how it integrated the agent platform with WPS 365 Document Center and WPS Comate to build vertical office agents deployed across finance and government sectors. AgentArts will be commercially available outside China on December 30. The openJiuwen open-source community has surpassed 50,000 stars and 3.29 million downloads. Huawei Cloud also launched partner commercial editions with Chinasoft International, iSoftStone Group, and Beiming Software.
Furthermore, the Industry AI Foundry has accumulated more than 1,000 industry assets and over 1,000 deployed projects across five existing zones: Smart Healthcare, Embodied AI, AI for Science, Smart Manufacturing, and Smart Finance. Two new zones were launched: the Smart Government Zone, with 24 founding partners covering government operations and public services, and the AI Hardware Zone, with 15 core partners covering over 20 device types, including AI glasses, AI toys, and AI recording cards.
This comprehensive rollout underscores Huawei Cloud's commitment to building an open agentic cloud, with open infrastructure, platform, and industry ecosystem. The announcements are poised to accelerate AI adoption across industries, providing enterprises with the tools to develop, use, and manage AI agents effectively. For more information, visit HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 online.
