At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Dr. Peter Zhou, Director of the Board at Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, announced the global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS), a critical component of Huawei Cloud's strategy to bolster the silicon bedrock for agentic AI. The new AICS is designed to make every token more efficient and ensure secure, reliable operation of AI agents in production environments. It features a five-level fast recovery mechanism, supports over 40 days of stable training on cloud, and can recover from faults within 10 minutes. With coordinated optimization across scheduling, cache, and algorithms, it delivers 20% higher token throughput than the previous generation. The service will be commercially available in China on September 30 and in international markets on November 30.
Alongside AICS, Huawei Cloud introduced the Context Memory Storage (CMS) solution, addressing the memory needs of long-horizon agent tasks. CMS provides 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 peers. These infrastructure advancements are part of Huawei Cloud's Agentic Infra paradigm, which has already served over 3,500 customers.
The company 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. MiniMax demonstrated its advanced multimodal model integrated with Huawei Cloud. The AgentArts enterprise-grade agent platform, along with its open-source edition openJiuwen, offers over 5,000 general Model Context Protocol (MCP) assets and more than 1,000 industry-specific MCP assets. AgentArts has served over 100 customers, including the Shenzhen Longgang District Government, China Southern Power Grid, and Kingsoft Office. Kingsoft Office shared how it built vertical office agents by integrating the platform with WPS 365 Document Center and WPS Comate, now deployed across finance and government sectors. AgentArts will be commercially available outside China on December 30, and the openJiuwen community has surpassed 50,000 stars and 3.29 million downloads.
The Industry AI Foundry has accumulated more than 1,000 industry assets and over 1,000 deployed projects. It now includes two new zones: Smart Government Zone, with 24 founding partners covering government 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 110 scenario skills. These additions aim to drive agents toward large-scale adoption.
Huawei Cloud's open approach—spanning infrastructure, platforms, and industry ecosystems—positions it to accelerate AI adoption at scale. The company is committed to building an open agentic cloud, enabling enterprises to develop and use agents effectively. For more information, visit HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 online.
